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en-wikipedia-org-9242		Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	26719	3059	68	Franklin became a national hero in America as an agent for several colonies when he spearheaded an effort in London to have the Parliament of Great Britain repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco–American relations. Franklin described the experiment in the Pennsylvania Gazette on October 19, 1752,[64][65] without mentioning that he himself had performed it.[66] This account was read to the Royal Society on December 21 and printed as such in the Philosophical Transactions.[67] Joseph Priestley published an account with additional details in his 1767 History and Present Status of Electricity. Among his associates in France was Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau—a French Revolutionary writer, orator and statesman who in early 1791 would be elected president of the National Assembly.[162] In July 1784, Franklin met with Mirabeau and contributed anonymous materials that the Frenchman used in his first signed work: Considerations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus.[163] The publication was critical of the Society of the Cincinnati, established in the United States.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9242.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9242.txt