Franklin's first audience before King Louis XVI, at Versailles. March 20, 1778 – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique lithograph of Franklin's first audience before King Louis XVI, at Versailles. March 20, 1778 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Franklin's first audience before King Louis XVI, at Versailles. March 20, 1778
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Franklin's first audience with King Louis XVI at Versailles took place on March 20, 1778, a few weeks after France had signed its alliance with the young United States. The meeting marked the first formal French reception of an American envoy and signaled that the king now treated the American cause as a serious partner. This chromolithograph, made around 1903, revisits that moment in bright color, when the scene of a republican diplomat before a European monarch was a popular subject for patriotic prints.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | G6102 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 32. |
| Subjects | Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Travel--France. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,423 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217787 |
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