{"id":1007,"date":"2014-01-12T20:14:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/12\/benjamin-franklin-a-auray\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T17:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:52:15","slug":"benjamin-franklin-a-auray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/12\/benjamin-franklin-a-auray\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin FRANKLIN \u00e0 Auray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter size-full wp-image-2580\" src=\"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/jpg_Franklin_a_Auray_450.jpg\" alt=\"Franklin_a_Auray_450.jpg\" align=\"center\" width=\"514\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/jpg_Franklin_a_Auray_450.jpg 514w, https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/jpg_Franklin_a_Auray_450-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 94vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Si le joli port de Saint-Goustan \u00e0 Auray a eu la chance d&rsquo;accueillir Benjamin Franklin, il le doit aux caprices de la m\u00e9t\u00e9o. Franklin d\u00e9barque ici le 4 d\u00e9cembre 1776. \u00c9missaire du Congr\u00e8s r\u00e9publicain, il a quitt\u00e9 l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique le 26 octobre pour venir chercher en France un soutien de Louis XVI \u00e0 la D\u00e9claration d&rsquo;ind\u00e9pendance de treize colonies am\u00e9ricaines. Il a 70 ans et parle fran\u00e7ais, espagnol et italien. Il devait rallier Nantes, o\u00f9 les Am\u00e9ricains ont un comptoir, mais des vents contraires conduisent vers Auray le Reprisal, la corvette de seize canons, apr\u00e8s une travers\u00e9e \u00e9puisante.<\/p>\n<p>D&rsquo;Auray, Franklin rejoindra Nantes par la route, puis Paris. Il s&rsquo;installe \u00e0 Passy en mars 1777. Sa r\u00e9putation de savant et de philosophe charme les Fran\u00e7ais. Il s&rsquo;arme de patience dans ses n\u00e9gociations avec les Fran\u00e7ais, qui ne veulent pas heurter les Anglais de front.<\/p>\n<p>Depuis mai 1776, la France fournit secr\u00e8tement des armes aux Insurg\u00e9s par l&rsquo;interm\u00e9diaire de Beaumarchais, mais ce n&rsquo;est qu&rsquo;en d\u00e9cembre 1777 que Louis XVI reconnaitra l&rsquo;ind\u00e9pendance des treize colonies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si le joli port de Saint-Goustan \u00e0 Auray a eu la chance d&rsquo;accueillir Benjamin Franklin, il le doit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[29,30,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6640,"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/6640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terresdecrivains.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}