Used book – The Barber of Seville (Student's Book), Beaumarchais

A teenage girl escapes her elderly guardian thanks to the love and wit of a young and wealthy count, guided by a barber shaped in the image of his creator: author, traveler, entrepreneur, free and philosopher above all.

Imbued with modernity, this representation of a generational conflict, from which love and freedom triumph, is the first part of a trilogy by an author who chose to hasten "to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to cry about it." But reading the first comedy of Figaro's father is also entering the world of comic illusion, the mechanisms of which Beaumarchais dismantles for us, making both the music of gaiety and the voice of the Enlightenment resonate in a reflection on social inequalities, the condition of women, and the individual's right to happiness.

Bibliolycée offers:

• the annotated complete text, • a first reading summary questionnaire, • analytical questionnaires on the work, • five corpuses accompanied by observation questions and writing exercises, • a presentation of Beaumarchais and his era, • an overview of the work's genre and its place in literary history.