_Barbier de Séville, Le_, author of, demands settlement, i. 282 brilliant preface to, i. 275 first performance a failure, i. 273 first prohibition to produce, i. 272 last play staged at Le Petit-Trianon, i. 285 permission granted to perform, i. 273 second performance of, great success, i. 274 story of, i. 276 Baron von Steuben, at Valley Forge, i. 32 invoked by Beaumarchais, ii. 247 Barry, Mme. du, i. 249 libel against, destroyed, i. 253 sustains Maupeou, i. 175 Bastille, ii. 214 opposite house of Beaumarchais, ii. 241 Beaumarchais, Caron de, i. 35 activity of, i. 287 addresses daring memoir to King, ii. 46ff. addresses President of Congress, ii. 203 again faces bankruptcy, ii. 239 anxiety for health of father, i. 99 appeals to La Borde, i. 243 appeals to ministers, ii. 258 arrives in Paris, ii. 77 arrives in Vienna, i. 262 attempts to buy guns, ii. 254 avenges his sister, i. 88ff. begs M. de Sartine to intercede, begs to read his play to Mesdames, i. 151 buried in garden, ii. 284 bust of, crowned, ii. 287 buys titles of nobility, i. 71 carried in triumph, ii. 101 charity of, arouses enmity, ii. 228 claims of the heirs of, i. 40 commissioned to settle affairs of D’Eon, ii. 18 compared to Grandison, i. 143 compared with Figaro, i. 270 composes popular song, i. 267 composes song on return from Vienna, i. 268 confers with ministers on problems of finance, ii. 111 confined in l’Abbaye, ii. 257 consulted by ministers, i. 254 dares accuse King of false sensibility, ii. 49 death of, ii. 283 déblâmé, ii. 100 defends ancestors, i. 237 defends himself, i. 221 demands account from actors, i. 282 demands aid for America, ii. 58 demands a new censor of his M. de F., ii. 218 demands return of thirty-five louis, i. 75 demands settlement, i. 293 destroys libel against Mme. du Barry, i. 253 destroys libel directed against Queen, i. 256 determines to visit Empress of Austria, i. 260 difficulties of his position, i. 66 directs ministers in regard to recall of Deane, ii. 187f. disavows du Coudray, ii. 120 discloses plans of secret aid to Lee, ii. 57 distaste for gambling, i. 74 dog, little, of, ii. 286 duel forced upon him, i. 63 enters Secret Service, i. 249 excuses violence of D’Eon, ii. 26 faces bankruptcy, ii. 137 faces ruin, ii. 151ff. fantastic letter of, to Congress, ii. 92ff. freed by Manuel, ii. 257 gains lawsuit at Aix, ii. 174 gay life at Madrid, i. 100ff. generosity of, i. 81, ii. 284 gives Comedians lesson in accounts, i. 295 goes to Spain, i. 84 home life of, recounted by Gudin, i. 72 honorable position at court, i. 105