La science du bonhomme Richard
By: de Benjamin Franklin ; précédée d'un abrégé de la Vie de Franklin, et suivie de son Interrogatoire devant la Chambre des Communes.
Contributors: Quétant, Antoine-François, 1733-1823.; L'Ecuy, J.-B. 1740-1834.; Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.; Say, Jean Baptiste, 1767-1832.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: a l'Imprimerie des sciences et arts ...
Published: 1794
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Success -- Early works to 1800; Maxims, American -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate: Department of State.
Ford, P.L.  Franklin bibliography, 133
BN LIV, column 950, no. 106
La science du bonhomme Richard signed: Richard Saunders. The original was first published in Poor Richard's almanac for 1758; separately issued in 1760 under title: "Father Abraham's speech" and frequently reprinted under title: "The way to wealth".
La science du bonhomme Richard was translated by A.F. Quétant and J.B. L'Écuy. "Interrogatoire" by P.S. Dupont de Nemours and "Vie de Franklin" by J.-B. Say. Cf. BN.
Signatures: pi1 a-b¹² c⁶ d² A-E¹².