![THEN Podcast, Episode 34: The Watchmaker Who Became Agent, Created Figaro, and Liberated America THEN Podcast, Episode 34: The Watchmaker Who Became Agent, Created Figaro, and Liberated America](https://www.wissenschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/D/A/DAMALS_Podcast_Beitragsbild-neu_RGB.png)
When the young, self-confident watchmaker Pierre-Augustin Caron appeared at the royal court for the first time, no one could have guessed what turns his life would take in the decades that followed. He becomes a courtier, businessman, author, smuggler and agent. The ascent is followed by the fall and the fall is followed by the ascent.
And here is the podcast: