Vie de Benjamin Franklin, écrite par lui-même. Suivie de ses oeuvres morales, politiques et littéraires, dont la plus grande partie n'avoit pas encore été publiée
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Anonymous (76) Benjamin Franklin
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- Jean-Henri Castéra
- translator
- François Buisson
- publisher
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- The private life of the late Benjamin Franklin LL.D. Originally written by himself, and now translated from the French. To which are added, some account of his public life, a variety of anecdotes concerning him, by M.M. Brissot, Condorcet, Rochefoucault, Le Roy, &c. &c. and the eulogium of M. Fauchet translation has translation
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Notes
This French translation was based on an English translation of the first French translation of Part One of the English source text of the Autobiography, to which Part Two was (partly) added.
Announced in La Décade philosophique year VI/3, n. 26, p. 499. Reviewed in Journal typographique et bibliographique vol. 1 (1797-1798), p. 257.
See Wikipedia for the complete publication history.
Contains also 'Science du bonhomme Richard', a retranslation of Poor Richard's Almanack. Franklin was an idol of many French radicals.