A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

Benjamin Franklin is a crucial figure in the history ... but he also signed the Treaty of Alliance with France in 1778, the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and the United States Constitution in 1787.

Benjamin and Deborah were devastated and commissioned a near life-size portrait to remember their son. Four decades later in France, Franklin told a companion about his son Franky’s death until ...

Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of America, wrote a hilarious satire about farts to criticise the ...

This plain suit would have created a stark contrast between Franklin and those in the elaborate dress typical of the opulent French Court, and Franklin crafted his appearance knowing that it was a ...

Now, thanks to years of dogged fundraising on both sides of the Atlantic, Benjamin ... founding father. Franklin is better known for his nine-year sojourn in France. But he lived far longer ...

Benjamin Franklin was there ... When Franklin left for France at the end of 1776 to try and win French support for the American Revolution, the war was going horribly for the Americans.

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...