From Antoine Yart: A Poem
AD: American Philosophical Society
<Ecoüis, near Rouen, October 4, 1777, in French: The poem,
of sixty-eight lines, is packed with fulsome praise. It describes
the Americans as orphaned by Franklin’s absence, and assures
them that “loin de l’amérique il la porte en son coeur.” Franklin
then first addresses King Louis, adjuring him to avenge
British insults and “7à l’empire des lys, joins l’empire des mers.”
The next appeal is to the Belgians and the Swiss to support
the rebel cause until the Americans “regnent, comme vous,
libres, independans.”>
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