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Publisher: Yale University Press (December 26, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300046731
ISBN-13: 978-0300046731
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Editorial Reviews Product Description The last two weeks covered by this volume represents a new chapter in the career of Franklin: Envoy to the French court oxford english dictionary picture. For the first 14 weeks, but the work of the American commissioners, Franklin, John Adams and Arthur Lee, as usual, although in an atmosphere of insecurity and distrust that the news of the abolition of the Commission's arrival in Paris in late November oxford english dictionary picture. In addition to disputes within the Commission to continue to Ralph Izard, Commissioner-designate to Tuscany to irritate Franklin, who wrote in response, one of his most brilliant invective and spiritual "Petition of the letter Z." A large part of the diplomatic history of this volume concerns the implementation of the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce. Although these documents to demonstrate France's support for the American cause, the practice is to be achieved. American retailers are looking to protect the convoys of French trade in North America, the trade is important to pay for the war. And owners of privateers seeking a legal resolution of the dilemma in which they were made rendered because of the recent French regulations Admiralty prices. But the role of Franklin as American minister not lock him into the world of accounting and routine correspondence. On the contrary, in this volume, we can clearly see, the American scientist and writer, Franklin in the world of the French Enlightenment. In December, for example, he returned to the previous scientific interest, a document in French on the Aurora Borealis written for presentation at the Academy of Sciences. It begins in 1779 and revived in its new productive tasks.
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