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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Treaty of Alliance with France: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)

Aloud.
Booth.
Triple.
Shrink.

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

After the friendship and alliance Treaty with France was a reality, Franklin handed it over to his secretary Edward Bancroft. Who was a double agent and copied the Treaty and sent this copy via a hired messenger get it to the ministers in London. They received it within 42 hours of its signing and had already knew about its contents as Bancroft had put this information into a letter with invisible ink in his usual dead drop 2 weeks before. Either Bancroft's acting was on par with the Booths or perhaps Franklin just expected this information to get through to the British in some way or another. No slouch Bancroft he shorted stocks on the information betting that news of the Treaty would affect the "bulls in the alley". He almost tripled his 420 pounds he had put on trades made before news of the Treaty became public, netting 1000 pounds.

It seemed that the only French person not enthralled with Franklin was Queen Marie-Antoinette who called him aloud an upstart. His low birth certainly had no impact on shrinking his ability to stand next to a French queen as well as a French king as an equal in the eyes of many.