The "Autobiography" remained unpublished during Franklin's lifetime. In 1791, the first edition appeared, in French rather than English, as "Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin," published in Paris. This translation of Part One only was based on a flawed transcript made of Franklin's manuscript before he had revised it. This French translation was then retranslated into English in two London publications of 1793, and one of the London editions served as a basis for a retranslation into French in 1798 in an edition which also included a fragment of Part Two.