From Thibouzet: Poem
ad: American Philosophical Society
Rue Jean-Robert, hôtel d'Estrées, Paris, October 15, 1781, in
French: Thibouzet dedicates to Franklin three pages of rhymed
couplets, unequal in length and erratic in spelling. The poet
wishes to rally a discouraged America, unhappy victim of more
than four centuries of tyrannical oppression. He praises France
as America's courageous defender and Franklin as another
Moses saved from the water to rescue his nation with laws both
beautiful and wise.
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