- Benjamin Franklin indulged in love games with French women to win the American Revolution! Can you believe that?
Already a well-known ladies’ man and frequenter of London’s Hellfire Club, Franklin took Paris by storm as Ambassador to France. Spending time in brothels and on the arms of influential Parisian ladies kept the American cause in the limelight and King Louis XVI eventually donated 1.3 livres to the fledgling nation. They sure knew there games right!