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Benjamin Franklin, Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin Écrits par Lui-même, et Adressés à son Fils [trans. Jacques Gibelin], Paris: Chez Buisson, 1791.
Credit: The Library Company of Philadelphia
The first of section of Benjamin Franklin’s “autobiography” was first published in Paris and in French in 1791. Franklin’s full autobiography, one of the most widely read and influential of all American autobiographies, would not be published until 1818.