In December 1776, he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. He lived in a home in the Parisian suburb of Passy, donated by Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont who helped the United States. Franklin remained in France until 1785, and was such a favorite of French society that it became fashionable for wealthy French families to decorate their parlors with a painting of him. He was highly flirtatious in the French manner (but did not have any actual affairs.) He conducted the affairs of his country towards the French nation with great success, which included securing a critical military alliance and negotiating the Treaty of Paris (1783). When he finally returned home in 1785, he received a place only second to that of George Washington as the champion of American independence. Le Ray honored him with a commissioned portrait painted by Joseph Duplessis that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
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we have an origianl painting of franklin at the court? by a painter by the name of charles francis I think and I was trying tofind more info on the painting and painter, If I send you a photo of the painting do you think you might be able to help me?
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No, Gena, but Professor J. A. Leo Lemay [lemay@english.udel.edu ] English Dept., University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, who is writing the definitive “Life of Franklin” may be able to.
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