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  2. Apr 12, 2024 · It's accurate that Benjamin Franklin was single during the eight years that he was in France, as Deborah had died from a stroke in 1774 (he was in Europe when she died and had not seen her in ten years).

  3. Benjamin Franklin was visiting France in 1767 when he wrote this letter to Mary (Polly) Stevenson, the intellectually curious daughter of his British landlady, Margaret Stevenson (ca. 1706–1783), describing in words and a drawing his experience at a public supper with the French King Louis XV and Queen Marie, who spoke to Franklin "Very ...

  4. Apr 12, 2024 · In Versailles, French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes (Thibault de Montalembert) tells King Louis XVI (Tom Pezier) of Franklin's presence and why he is in their country. But Louis isn't in a helpful mood.

  5. Apr 19, 2024 · He finally nabbed their recognition of the U.S. in the Revolutionary War on December 17, 1777, after the crucial American victory over the British at the Battle of Saratoga in October of that...

  6. Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher.

  7. Apr 12, 2024 · The real story of Benjamin Franklin and the Franco-American Alliance. As Franklin, starring Michael Douglas, dramatises statesman Benjamin Franklin’s 1770s mission to secure French support for America’s independence struggle, Jonny Wilkes takes a closer look at the true history.

  8. When Franklin went to France in the early part of the Revolution as the official diplomat and ambassador of the thirteen colonies, he came as a man of maturity, brilliance, ability, and as a world statesman.

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