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La Science Du Bonhomme Richard, ou Moyen Facile De Payer Les Impôts. Traduit de L'Anglois.
[Paris] A Philadelphia et se trouve A Paris, chez Ruault, 1777, first edition in French, 12mo, [1] - 151. [1], [1] - 4 pp., publisher's advertisement, bound in slightly later stiff wraps, fashioned from plain blue paper and leaves from an almanac, circa 1800, later manuscript paper spine label, untrimmed, text clean, small wormhole running through the bottom of the blank margin of the sheets, not affecting any text, else very good.
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Contains Franklin's La Science Du Bonhomme Richard, (pp. [5]-26), here reprinted from Antoine Francois Quétant's translation, probably as found in the 1777 Courrier de l' Europe under a different title. Poor Richard's speech came to be known as The Way to Wealth. It was undoubtedly the most popular in France of all eighteenth century American writings and served to make Le Bonhomme Richard a truly mythical figure embodying the "bourgeois" virtues of thrift, practicality, prudence, common sense, and enlightened self interest.
The work also contains the examination of Dr. Franklin before the British Parliament in 1766, translated by Dupont de Nemours. The Constitution of Pennsylvania, as established in 1776, translated by Louis Alexandre Duc de la Rochefoucauld d'Enville and reprinted from Affaires de l'Angleterre et de l' Amerique. It also includes the examination of Mr. Penn, at the bar of Parliament, 1776, translated by MM. Quétant and Lecuy.
Echeverria and Wilkie 777/42; Ford 113; Sabin 78109; Goldsmith 11761; Kress B122
