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Look out for Joel Paul’s new book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Silas Deane, a Connecticut merchant and member of the Continental Congress, went to France to steer the king to toughen the colonists of their struggle with Britain. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais used to be a playwright who had get admission to to the arms and ammunition that Deane needed. And the Chevalier d’Éon used to be a diplomat and sometime spy for the French king who ignited a crisis that persuaded the French to arm the Americans. That is the real story of how three remarkable folks lied, cheated, stole, and cross-dressed across Europe to achieve France’s aid as the War of American Independence hung within the balance.