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Figaro: The Life of Beaumarchais, by John Rivers

This project is now complete. All files can be found on this librivox catalog page:
https://librivox.org/figaro-the-life-of-beaumarchais-by-john-rivers/

Beaumarchais – Watchmaker, music teacher, politician, opportunist, publisher, secret agent for Louis XVI, yet fomentor of revolution in both France and America – and yet again imprisoned for being an enemy of the Revolution. . . friend of Voltaire, libertarian, arms dealer, and dramatist whose famous Figaro trio of satirical plays reflects the dissolution of Medieval society and torturous emergence of a new democratic era. This biography by John Rivers was originally published in 1922. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4525386 (Skip the footnotes.)
How to pronounce Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Biography & Autobiography
Keywords that describe the book: biography, french revolution, american revolution, Voltaire, figaro, beaumarchais, barber of seville, playwrite, dramatist, revolutionaries
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Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.

Say:
"Chapter # of Figaro: The Life of Beaumarchais. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Figaro: The Life of Beaumarchais, by John Rivers. Section Title."
End of recording:
Say:
"End of Chapter#." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:
"End of Figaro: The Life of Beaumarchais, by John Rivers."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.

Filename: figarobeaumarchais_##_rivers_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. figarobeaumarchais_01_rivers_128kb.mp3)

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Last edited by LCaulkins on October 4th, 2021, 9:44 am, edited 4 times in total.
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Post by Availle »

Sounds interesting - I'll MC this for you!

Later: Okay, all good! Have fun!

I forsee quite a few problems with the filenames - please make sure to note them in the MW so I know to fix during cataloging. :wink:
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Post by LCaulkins »

Super! Thanks :) I don't have DPL lined up, yet, so hopefully someone will see the tilde soon.
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Post by pnagami »

Hi LCaulkins,

May I please read Section 1?

My best,

Pam
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Sure, Pam - you're in!
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Post by LCaulkins »

OK, Ava - I have the MW set up. Just hoping for a DPL to spot us. :)
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Post by pnagami »

Thank you, Lynette!

Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

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Post by Availle »

I find this secret service stuff very intriguing - could I read chapter/section 16 please? :)
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Post by LCaulkins »

Yay! Of course!
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Post by pnagami »

Hi Lynette,

Footnotes or no footnotes?

Pam
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Post by LCaulkins »

pnagami wrote: September 20th, 2021, 6:29 pm Hi Lynette,

Footnotes or no footnotes?

Pam
Thanks for the reminder - no footnotes
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Thanks, Lynette.

Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Post by LCaulkins »

Thanks, Pam! Your file is loaded, and if we don't get a DPL in the next few days I'll make sure it gets PL'd. :)
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Post by pnagami »

Thank you, Lynette.

Great book!

Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

Robert Louis Stevenson
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