In the days of Poor Richard . mois de nourrice. It is a pity thatthe poor can not keep their children at home. This oldkingdom is a muttering Vesuvius, growing hotter,year by year, with discontent. You will presentlyhear its voices. There was a dinner that evening at Franklinshouse, at which the Marquis de Mirabeau, M. Turgot,the Madame de Brillon, the Abbe Raynal and theCompte and Comptesse d Haudetot, Colonel Irons andthree other American gentlemen were present. TheMadame de Brillon was first to arrive. She enteredwith a careless, jaunty air and ran to meet Franklinand caught his hand and ga
In the days of Poor Richard . mois de nourrice. It is a pity thatthe poor can not keep their children at home. This oldkingdom is a muttering Vesuvius, growing hotter,year by year, with discontent. You will presentlyhear its voices. There was a dinner that evening at Franklinshouse, at which the Marquis de Mirabeau, M. Turgot,the Madame de Brillon, the Abbe Raynal and theCompte and Comptesse d Haudetot, Colonel Irons andthree other American gentlemen were present. TheMadame de Brillon was first to arrive. She enteredwith a careless, jaunty air and ran to meet Franklinand caught his hand and gave him a double kiss oneach cheek and one on his forehead and called himpapa. At table she sat between me and Doctor Franklin,Jack writes. She frequently locked her hand in theDoctors and smiled sweetly as she looked into hiseyes. I wonder what the poor, simple, hard-workingDeborah Franklin would have thought of these famil-iarities. Yet here, I am told, no one thinks ill of thatkind of thing. The best women of France seem to. Io(m4 Wo(co(l IN FRANCE WITH FRANKLIN 325 treat their favorites with like tokens of regard. Nowand then she spread her arms across the backs of ourchairs, as if she would have us feel that her affectionwas wide enough for both. She assured me that all the women of France werein love with le grand savant. Franklin, hearing the compliment, remarked: Itis because they pity my age and infirmities. First wepity, then embrace, as the great Mr. Pope has written. We think it a compliment that the greatest intel-lect in the world is willing to allow itself to be, in away, captured by the charms of women, Madame Bril-lon declared. My beautiful friend! You are too generous, theDoctor continued with a laugh. If the greatest manwere really to come to Paris and lose his heart, Ishould know where to find it. The Doctor speaks an imperfect and rather brokenFrench, but these people seem to find it all the moreinteresting on that account. Probably to them it islik
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