Les premières années de la diplomatie états-unienne : l’influence décisive de Benjamin Franklin à Paris (1776-1778)

This paper relies on scholarship produced over the last decades to take stock of the role of Benjamin Franklin as founding father of American diplomacy. Focusing on the first part of Franklin’s mission to France–which leads us to the signing of the treaties of amity and commerce and of political all...

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Autor principal:	Christian Lerat
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Publicado:	Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2010
Materias:	alliance with France Benjamin Franklin diplomacy war of Independence History America E-F America E11-143
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fe231d423941411e9dc413e93635b23e2021-12-02T10:15:03ZLes premières années de la diplomatie états-unienne : l’influence décisive de Benjamin Franklin à Paris (1776-1778)1765-276610.4000/transatlantica.4769https://doaj.org/article/fe231d423941411e9dc413e93635b23e2010-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/4769https://doaj.org/toc/1765-2766This paper relies on scholarship produced over the last decades to take stock of the role of Benjamin Franklin as founding father of American diplomacy. Focusing on the first part of Franklin’s mission to France–which leads us to the signing of the treaties of amity and commerce and of political alliance with France (February 6, 1778), enables one to assess how Franklin soon succeeded in meeting the challenges he was confronted with and also in showing flexibility in his reactions to French expectations. His main asset certainly lay in his being able to capitalize on what the other American emissaries were so cruelly deprived of, to the point of becoming the latter’s rival. Blending personal charm with an inborn talent for communication and… manipulation, Franklin easily managed recognition as the main negotiating partner of a Court whose understandable reticence he knew how to overcome, eventually making France the ally of a young republic—a landmark the importance of which was to prove decisive.Christian LeratAssociation Française d'Etudes Américainesarticlealliance with FranceBenjamin Franklindiplomacywar of IndependenceHistory AmericaE-FAmericaE11-143ENFRTransatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines, Vol 2 (2010)
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description	This paper relies on scholarship produced over the last decades to take stock of the role of Benjamin Franklin as founding father of American diplomacy. Focusing on the first part of Franklin’s mission to France–which leads us to the signing of the treaties of amity and commerce and of political alliance with France (February 6, 1778), enables one to assess how Franklin soon succeeded in meeting the challenges he was confronted with and also in showing flexibility in his reactions to French expectations. His main asset certainly lay in his being able to capitalize on what the other American emissaries were so cruelly deprived of, to the point of becoming the latter’s rival. Blending personal charm with an inborn talent for communication and… manipulation, Franklin easily managed recognition as the main negotiating partner of a Court whose understandable reticence he knew how to overcome, eventually making France the ally of a young republic—a landmark the importance of which was to prove decisive.
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title	Les premières années de la diplomatie états-unienne : l’influence décisive de Benjamin Franklin à Paris (1776-1778)
title_short	Les premières années de la diplomatie états-unienne : l’influence décisive de Benjamin Franklin à Paris (1776-1778)
title_full	Les premières années de la diplomatie états-unienne : l’influence décisive de Benjamin Franklin à Paris (1776-1778)
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Les premières années de la diplomatie états-unienne : l’influence décisive de Benjamin Franklin à Paris (1776-1778)

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