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Mar 20, 2024 · In reality, Franklin had only one reason for being in Paris—to convince the French to make a very expensive bet on America. But first, he had to let all of the political pieces fall into place....
- Dave Roos
Mar 4, 2020 · Following the meeting between Franklin and de Bonvouloir, the Committee of Secret Correspondence sent lawyer and merchant Silas Deane to Paris in April 1776 to act as its representative. It was Deane’s job to acquire the guns and military supplies for 25,000 men.
- Peter Kross
The Continental Congress sent a third agent, Arthur Lee, to help Franklin and Deane with negotiations with the French. Franklin tried to keep the American Revolution cause alive in Paris, negotiations lasted two years until the Continental Army defeated the British at Saratoga, New York.
The most consistent and brilliantly written reports came from the embassy's secret agent with the imposing name of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Better known as a successful Parisian dramatist, his works reflected egalitarian influences of the Enlightenment.
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The exhibition called « Les agents secrets du General » (The General’s secret agents), from June to October 2022 at the Musée de l’Ordre de la Libération, showed the history of the Free France’s secret services.
Sep 28, 2021 · Through secret agents, the French Government began to provide clandestine assistance to the United States, much of which they channeled through American trader Silas Deane.
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Sep 20, 2017 · The terms of the congressional instructions were deliberately designed to reign in Adams's anti-French instincts, which ironically were why he had been appointed as the sole peace commissioner two years earlier. The goal had been to counter Franklin's perceived pro-French bias.
