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Biographer Stacy Schiff reflects on Franklin in Paris.

Publication: American Scholar
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Biographer Stacy Schiff reflects on Franklin in Paris.(Point of Departure)(Benjamin Franklin)(Brief article)

Article Excerpt
If in the Philadelphia of his youth Benjamin Franklin recognized the value of seeming to work hard, in Paris, at age 70, he quickly mastered the essential French art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. Industry and efficiency were still foreign concepts in the Old World, calibrated...

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