Edmund Morgan - In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary p...

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In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.

Edmund Morgan

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Deutsche Übersetzung

In Frankreich, wo Franklin von 1776 bis 1785 gelebt hatte, hatte er in der Öffentlichkeit einen außergewöhnlichen Platz errungen. Die Franzosen hatten ihn bis zur Absurdität hochgetrieben - dachte zumindest seine Kollegen in der amerikanischen Mission.

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