"Despite the title, this work is really a compilation from various sources of documents relating to America in some way and assumed a publication life of its own apart from the separate printings of B. Franklin's 'Science.'"

Originally published: Philadelphia [i.e. Paris] : Ruault, 1777.

Title vignette: pastoral scene with two figures.

Cf. Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, 777/42.

"La science du Bonhomme Richard," p. [1]-26, was translted by Antoine-François Quétant. "Poor Richard's speech had originally appeared in 1757 as 'Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people at a vendue of merchant-goods,' and came to be known as 'The way to wealth.'"--Echeverria & Wilkie.

"Interrogatoire de M. Franklin devant la Chambre des Communes," translated by Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, p. 27-81.

"Constitution de la République de Pensylvanie, telle qu'elle a été établie par la Commission Générale Extraordinaire ... ," p. 82-145.

"Interrogatoire de M. Penn a la barre du Parlement d'Angleterre," translated by Quétant and by Jean-Baptise L'Écuy, p. 146-151.

Bookseller's advetisements, p. [1-5] at end.

Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, 778/78.

Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 114.

United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Causes.

Pennsylvania > Politics and government > 1775-1865.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin, before an august assembly, relating to the repeal of the Stamp Act. French.

Pennsylvania. Constitution (1776). French. 1778.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

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