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Franklin enjoyed close personal and professional relationships with quite a few of the important European thinkers of his day, such as Hume, Priestley, Lavoisier and Condorset. Dr. Bancroft, a physician and naturalist (also Franklin’s secretary in Paris), Jonathan Williams, William Alexander, and English banker Thomas Walpole were among others. (See Franklin…”I-doll-ized”.
