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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 334 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FIGARO , a famous dramatic See also:

character first introduced on the See also:stage by See also:Beaumarchais in the See also:Barbier de See also:Seville, the Mariage de Figaro, and the Folle Journee. The name is said to be an old See also:Spanish and See also:Italian word for a wigmaker, connected with the verb cigarrar, to See also:roll in See also:paper. Many of the traits of the character are to be found in earlier comic types of the See also:Roman and Italian stage, but as a whole the conception was marked by See also:great originality; and Figaro soon .seized the popular See also:imagination, and became the recognized representative of daring, See also:clever and nonchalant roguery and intrigue. Almost immediately after its See also:appearance, See also:Mozart See also:chose the See also:Marriage of Figaro as the subject of an See also:opera, and the See also:Barber of Seville was treated first by See also:Paisiello, and afterwards in 1816 by See also:Rossini. In 1826 the name of the witty See also:rogue was taken by a See also:journal which continued till 1833 to be one of the See also:principal Parisian See also:periodicals, numbering among its contributors such men as Jules See also:Janin, See also:Paul See also:Lacroix, See also:Leon See also:Gozlan, See also:Alphonse See also:Karr, Dr See also:Veron, Jules See also:Sandeau and See also:George See also:Sand. Various abortive attempts were made to restore the Figaro during the next twenty years; and in 1854 the efforts of M. de Villemessant were crowned with success (see See also:NEWSPAPERS: See also:France). See Marc See also:Monnier, See also:Les Aieux de Figaro (1868) ; H. de Villemessant, Memoires d'un journaliste (1867).

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