Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy

Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy

Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy (1744–1824) was a French aristocrat, friend, and confidant of Benjamin Franklin from 1777. It is known that she liked Franklin for a while, then fell out with him for some unknown reason. It is also known that she was an accomplished musician, loved to play the harpsichord, and lived in a town called Passy, an exclusive area of Paris, France.

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*cite web | url = http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1989/LB-N89-Hoefnagel.html
title = Benjamin Franklin and `The Stol'n Kiss' | author = D. Hoefnagel | accessdate = 2008-07-23


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