|  Alan Chartock talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff, whose latest book, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America, chronicles the years Benjamin Franklin spent in Paris enlisting French aid in our war for independence. Schiff discusses the intricacies of the French court, the rift between Franklin and his son and the not-so-momentous meeting between Franklin and another noted Enlightenment figure, Voltaire.
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