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Old 04-20-2013, 01:34 PM
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Franklin landed in France via a fishing boat which had ferried him from the more scenic Continental Naval ship the Reprisal. He and his grandsons Benny Bache (age 7) and William Temple Franklin (age 17) accompanied him when they landed at Auray. Franklin had wanted to make the most anonymous landing in France he could notifying the fewest French of his arrival. This did not last long as the people of France loved Ben Franklin and as soon as his carriage reached a larger city, he was in for a grand ball. He had taken to wearing a soft fur cap which the ladies of Nantes honored by wearing wigs that mirrored it in the coiffure à la Franklin. Franklin's cult status in France soon eclipsed that of King Louis XVI who was so irked by it that he gave his mistress who was a huge Franklinphile a chamber pot with Franklin's image embossed inside. There were probably palm fronds made into likenesses of Ben Franklin and his fur hat in France. There were images of him in just about every art in France in late 1776.
In the abacus of determining friend from foe, Benjamin Franklin had a very hard time with one of his compatriots. This was with Arthur Lee who-- to put it in terms of 2013-- often acted like a troll to the people around him. He was a dunce with many of the social affairs going on in Paris and caused an abrupt end to some of Ben Franklin's plans with respect to getting the backing of various members of Parisian high society towards supporting the American Revolution. http://leearchive.wlu.edu/reference/misc/tyler/01.html
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