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Marquis de Sade and Beaumarchais, Francois Rene Chateaubriand and Marie Antoinette... Dangerous games of great writers, in which all the cult figures of the Gallant Age were involved against their will - in the new book by Edvard Radzinsky. "On that day, Beaumarchais, as always, wrote a play ..." - as it turns out, on the day of his death. He was finishing the last act of the play, which he created and directed all his life, in which he played until the last hour and which did not end after his death. This play had everything that glorified Beaumarchais the playwright: courage, audacity, grace, love adventures and incredible intrigues. Game of mind and pen. But this time the game attracted crowned heads and aristocrats, famous writers and politicians to the stage. Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte and Fouche, Robespierre and Danton, the Marquis de Sade and Chateaubriand - they all became actors in Beaumarchais' "theater of life". But life is not a theater ... And if on the stage the servant Figaro ridiculously fooled Count Almaviva to the applause of the public, then in life he dragged him to the guillotine to the enthusiastic roar of the crowd. The gallant play had a bloody ending - a revolution. And Beaumarchais played an important role in this. The new work of Edvard Radzinsky is also a kind of "theatrical life", "the writer's game". And who, if not our famous playwright, is given to understand the intricacies of the creative ideas of his French colleague in writing?