By 1788 it had already been ten years since Beaumarchais wrote "The Marriage of Figaro", featuring a noble and his valet. His play was ruled inadmissible and insidious, prohibited by royal censorship when he attempted to debut it in the theater in 1781. And yet he was only describing the society of his time though with a critical eye ... The benefits to come from the excesses of the French Revolution cannot be understood without reading the events of those three crucial years ... Here's the story !