The Printer and the ''Peasant'' Benjamin Franklin and Pierre-Andre Gargaz, Two Philosophers in Search of Peace

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作者：

Cohn, Ellen R. ^{[1
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[1] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

来源：

EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL | 2010年 / 8卷 / 01期

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10.1353/eam.0.0031

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K [历史、地理];

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06 ;

摘要：

As Franklin was trying to launch peace negotiations with Great Britain in the spring of 1782, an ex-convict named Pierre-Andre Gargaz brought him a plan for how to secure perpetual peace in Europe through a union of nations ruled by a representative council. Franklin had the treatise printed on his private press. This article traces the enduring relationship between these two ''philosophes,'' analyzes the evolution of Gargaz's ideas and suggests Franklin's influence on them, discusses the establishment and purpose of Franklin's press at Passy, and demonstrates how this meeting changed Franklin's view of himself as an independent printer under the ancien regime.

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