Note 285 — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND JOHN SLIDELL AT PARIS.
Reading edition
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.