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Original Exhibition Caption: In December 1776, the Continental Congress sent Benjamin Franklin to France to gain French assistance for America in the War for Independence. Franklin soon developed a close relationship with Leray de Chaumont, a French aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI who was sympathetic to the American cause and invited Franklin to live at his chateau in Passy. In this letter to Chaumont, written from Passy, Franklin discusses recent political and military developments, including the excitement in Paris surrounding the Marquis de Lafayette's preparations to return to America with fresh troops.
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Letter, Benjamin Franklin to Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont
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Letter, Benjamin Franklin to Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont
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Original Exhibition Caption: In December 1776, the Continental Congress sent Benjamin Franklin to France to gain French assistance for America in the War for Independence. Franklin soon developed a close relationship with Leray de Chaumont, a French aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI who was sympathetic to the American cause and invited Franklin to live at his chateau in Passy. In this letter to Chaumont, written from Passy, Franklin discusses recent political and military developments, including the excitement in Paris surrounding the Marquis de Lafayette's preparations to return to America with fresh troops.
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AR 2025.1.67
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Historical Manuscript Collection
Correspondence, Subject and Other Manuscript Records
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