Figaro, Mariage de, a play by Beaumarchais, “issued on the stage in Paris 1784, ran its hundred nights; a lean and barren thing; succeeded, as it flattered a pruriency of the time and spoke what all were feeling and longing to speak.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Figaro * Figuier, Louis