Note 30 — Chapter XII · THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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M. Morel-Fatio points out that Fígaro, which seems so Castilian by association, is not a Castilian name. See his Études sur l'Espagne (Paris, 1895), vol. i. p. 76. If it be not Catalan, if Beaumarchais invented it, it is among the most successful of his coinage.