The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas: “the new play by the Canon de Beaumarchais... 'You mean the ‘Marriage of Figaro’?'”
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: “In Paris Beaumarchais is the rage; they will come to see half a 'Figaro.'”
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honoré de Balzac: “For a year past I had beheld myself well dressed, in a carriage, with a pretty woman by my side, playing the great lord, dining at Very's, deciding not to go back home till the morrow; but was prepared for my father with a plot more intricate than the Marriage of Figaro, which he could not possibly have unraveled.”