Secrets of fascinating womanhood pamphlets 1963

He could view the three of them in waxworks at the fair of St. He could hear his name linked regularly with those of Voltaire and Rousseau in the galaxy of Enlightment heroes. His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well as plebeians, to such a degree that there was scarcely a peasant or a citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a ladyРІР‚в„ўs chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen who was not familiar with it and who did not consider him as a friend to human kind.Р”Р‡ranklin himself was surprised to find his image everywhere, in medallions, portraits, busts, and prints. John Adams, who joined the mission in 1778, remembered years later that The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity-or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought. In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. Enlisting dead heroes in live causes has always been a stock in trade of politics. Something more, or less, than mourning lay behind these proceedings in both France and America. That evening the Commune of Paris commissioned another eulogy, which was delivered to an audience of three thousand on July 21, a little over a year after the storming of the Bastille. The Assembly voted by acclamation to join the United States Congress in mourning. There the new National Assembly was in session in June when Mirabeau, who had just received the news, rose and announced simply, РІР‚Сљ Franklin est mort.РІР‚Сњ There was a stunned silence before Mirabeau proceeded to an eloquent eulogy, giving Franklin credit not only for American independence and the framing of the United States Constitution but also for gaining recognition of the rights of man throughout the world. In France the reaction was more dramatic. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

His death could not go without some sort of official notice. Franklin was eighty-four years old, had been ill for some time, and his death could scarcely have come as a surprise, Still, apart from the republicРІР‚в„ўs new president, Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. When Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, a little more than two hundred years ago, the first Congress of the United States under its new Constitution was busy addressing the problems of a young republic in a world of monarchies.

Secrets of fascinating womanhood pamphlets 1963