Pierre Beaumarchais

"Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright, diplomat and bon vivant."

―Beaumarchais introducing himself to Arno Dorian, 1784.

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799), commonly known as Pierre Beaumarchais was a French playwright, diplomat, inventor, spy, publisher and a revolutionary.

Beaumarchais sought the help of the Assassin Arno Dorian, after his play, The Marriage of Figaro was intentionally censored by the Public Censors.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Unity