... Perhaps Beaumarchais himself is thinking about the depressing sequel he was soon to write, called "The Guilty Mother," in which the Countess has to face the consequences of having yielded for one brief night, some years after "The Marriage of Figaro," to Cherubino's passion ...

-- Charles Rosen, "Beaumarchais: Inventor of Modern Opera," in "Critical Entertainments" (2000).
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