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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 41: Volume 41: September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

By Benjamin Franklin , Ellen R. Cohn

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0300203748, 9780300203745
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5343529 bytes)
Pages
760\756
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yes
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2015-10-14 14:54:15
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After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin’s official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. He concluded a draft consular convention with France, but Great Britain did not act on the articles for a commercial agreement that he negotiated with David Hartley, and Congress did not ratify the draft treaties of commerce with Denmark and Portugal that he had sent to Philadelphia the previous summer. In his welcome leisure time, however, Franklin followed scientific developments (witnessing the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement (making cornbread and building coal-burning stoves), and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American.

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