[258] Cabanis, Notice sur Benjamin Franklin: Œuvres Posthumes, Tom. V. p. 261. Mignet, Portraits et Notices (2me édit.), Tom. II. p. 442. See, also, Morellet, Mémoires, Tom. I. p. 291. [259] The triumph of the Republic since this article was written makes this magnificent library National instead of Imperial. [260] Letter to Miss Lucy Cranch, September 5, 1784: Letters of Mrs. Adams (2d edit.), Vol. II. pp. 55, 56. [261] Tom. II. p. 83. See, also, p. 337. [262] Tom. II. p. 465. [263] Chambelland, Vie du Prince de Bourbon-Condé, Tom. I. p. 376. [264] Capefigue, Louis XVI., Tom. II. p. 49. [265] Lacretelle, Histoire de France pendant le 18me Siècle (2me édit.), Tom. V. p. 85. The historian errs in putting this success in 1777, before the date of the Treaty; and he errs also with regard to the Court, if he meant to embrace the King and Queen. [266] Gazette d’Amiens, Avril, 1780: Moore’s Diary of the American Revolution, Vol. II. p. 283. [267] The account of this unique _fête_, with the verses, was reprinted in America, and is in the collection of the Zenger Club, of New York. Parton, Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. II. pp. 430-434. [268] Chastellux, Travels in North America, Vol. II. p. 372, January 12, 1783. [269] Mémoires sur la Vie privée de Marie Antoinette, par Madame Campan, Tom. I. p. 234. [270] Bulletin de l’Alliance des Arts, 10 Octobre, 1843. See, also, Goncourt, Histoire de Marie Antoinette, p. 221. [271] Grimm, Correspondance, Tom. XVI. pp. 427, 428. [272] Louis Blanc, Histoire de la Révolution Française, Tom. VI. p. 316. [273] Notice sur Benjamin Franklin: Œuvres Posthumes, Tom. V. p. 220. [274] Morellet, Mémoires, Tom. I. p. 290. Nothing but Franklin’s eminence could have obtained the place he has in the spiteful work, “Histoire d’un Pou Français, ou l’Espion d’une nouvelle Espèce, tant en France qu’en Angleterre, contenant les Portraits des Personnages intéressans de ces deux Royaumes,” which appeared at Paris in 1781. See Chapters VIII. and XIV. [275] Le Temple du Goût, 1, 11, 12: Œuvres (édit. 1784), Tom. XII. p. 141. [276] L’Anti-Lucrèce, traduit par M. de Bougainville, (Paris, 1754,) Épistre Dédicatoire, Discours Préliminaire, pp. 2, 16, 91. [277] Anti-Lucretius, Lib. I. 95-98. [278] Lib. I. v. 104. _Tonandi_ is sometimes changed to _tonantis_, and also _tonanti_. [279] Works of Franklin, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 538, note. [280] Ibid., p. 537. [281] Works of Franklin, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 539, note. [282] Œuvres de Turgot, Tom. IX. p. 140. [283] Works of Franklin, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 539, note. [284] Ibid. [285] Mémoires de l’Abbé Morellet, Ch. XV. Tom. I. pp. 286 seqq. This chapter was translated some years ago for a Philadelphia periodical, “The Bizarre,” by William Duane, great-grandson of Franklin, and is preserved by Parton, in his “Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin,” Vol. II. pp. 422-429. [286] Julius, Nordamerikas Sittliche Zustände, Band I. p. 98.