When the report of Franklins death reached Paris, he received, among other marks of respect, this significanthonor by one of the revolutionary clubs: in the café where the members met, his bust was crowned withoak-leaves, and on the pedestal below was engraved the single word VIR. This simple encomium, calling tomind Napoleons This is a man after meeting Goethe, sums up better than a volume of eulogy what Franklinwas in his own day and what his life may still signify to us. He acted at one time as a commander of troops,yet cannot be called a soldier; he was a...
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