Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger backyard books Body Language: Reflecting on Others

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Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger backyard books Body Language: Reflecting on OthersThe compelling story of a little known figure in the American Revolution, now available in paperback for the first time, with a new foreword by Iris de Rode. In 1776, the playwright and inventor Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732 99) conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced King Louis XVI to bankroll the project and single handedly carried it out. By war's end, he had supplied Washington's army