 He traveled to London, Amsterdam and Vienna on various secret missions.His first mission was to travel to London to destroy a pamphlet, "Les mémoires secrets d'une femme publique", which Louis XV considered a libel of one of his mistresses, Madame du Barry.Beaumarchais was sent to London to persuade the French spy Chevalier d'Éon to return home, but while there he began gathering information on British politics and society.