The Bagatelles from Passy: Text and FacsimileEakins Press, 1967 - 188 Seiten These delightfully humorous writings of Benjamin Franklin were created and printed for his lady friends while he was stationed in Paris as the first American ambassador to France. This exact replica is the first full facsimile of a unique copy of The Bagatelles, a treasure of the Yale University Library. |
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... France , years now bathed in the glamour of success . When he landed in France in December 1776 , the American Revolution was far from won , and all the odds seemed against him . He was seventy years old , afflicted with a stone in the ...
... France , years now bathed in the glamour of success . When he landed in France in December 1776 , the American Revolution was far from won , and all the odds seemed against him . He was seventy years old , afflicted with a stone in the ...
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... France , the crucial Treaty of Alliance with France , the recurrent grants of desperately needed money and supplies , and finally the Treaty of Peace with Britain . Not so little , for a man whom John Adams accused of spending a dis ...
... France , the crucial Treaty of Alliance with France , the recurrent grants of desperately needed money and supplies , and finally the Treaty of Peace with Britain . Not so little , for a man whom John Adams accused of spending a dis ...
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... France for the rest of his life . She said no , but kept his devotion , as she had kept that of the great economist Turgot , another rejected but affectionate suitor . When Franklin left for America , in July 1785 , Madame Helvétius ...
... France for the rest of his life . She said no , but kept his devotion , as she had kept that of the great economist Turgot , another rejected but affectionate suitor . When Franklin left for America , in July 1785 , Madame Helvétius ...
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