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Images

• Benjamin Franklin at the Court of Louis XVI ( na )

• Benjamin Franklin - peint d'après nature pour la famille - exposé au Salon de 1779 ( Library of Congress )

• Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrum que tyrannis / peint par Madame Filleul ; gravé par Cahtelin, Graveur du Roi. ( Library of Congress )

• The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France ( Library of Congress )

  Benjamin Franklin standing with two other people outside house next to river, gondolas(?) on water. --Library of Congress

• Franklin's first audience before King Louis XVI, at Versailles. March 20, 1778 ( Library of Congress )

• Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

• John Jay ( Images of American Political History )

Books

• A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff

  n December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France.' So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin-seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French-convinced France, an absolute monarchy…

• The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood

  From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he…

• The first American: the life and times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Websites

• Franklin -- World of Influence -- Paris ( PBS )

  When Franklin went to France as America's first ambassador, there were two superpowers in Europe: England and France, and the countries were very different. Like the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, England…