Letter, Benjamin Franklin to Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont
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...
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Papey May 10. 1779
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