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Deborah died in late 1774, when Franklin was still in London. Two years later, as a widower, he was back in Europe. The French lionized the American ambassador, who developed a considerable friendship and correspondence with several beautiful French women, including Madame Brillon, who was an artist and musician, and the wife of a diplomat. Their relationship supposedly never went beyond friendship, although Franklin admitted to a friend, "I sometimes suspected my heart of wanting to go further."21 Their letters are intimate and flirtatious, and fun to read. (See chapter 6 of "The Compleated Autobiography.") He considered flirtation a legitimate "amusement" and refuge from a grueling schedule of diplomacy. Gossip spread about him and Madame Brillon.
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By the time Franklin was thirty-five, printing and publishing took a secondary place in his mind, and he turned to experimenting. He first invented an efficient safe stove, but being a public benefactor by nature, he refused a patent or any profits from it. He next experimented with electricity, based on theories he had learned from French friends while in London.
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Scientist and philosopher Joseph Priestley was one of Franklin's closest friends in London in the 1770s. Priestley is best known for his discovery of oxygen, but ... made contributions in electricity and optics. Priestley's liberal religious philosophy, which he referred to as "Rational Christianity," strongly influenced Unitarianism in England and the United States.
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