...Sally. "These, with the pictures, busts and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon." The fad went so far as to mildly annoy, though still amuse, the king himself. He gave the Comtesse...

...pocketknives. Franklin told his daughter that the "incredible" numbers of images spread everywhere "have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon."''' Not only did Jean-Antoine Houdon and Jean-Jacques Caffieri mold busts of Franklin, in marble, bronze,...

...pocketknives. Franklin told his daughter that the "incredible" numbers of images spread everywhere "have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon."49 Not only did Jean-Antoine Houdon and Jean-Jacques Caffieri mold busts of Franklin, in marble,...

...France, where "the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies ere spread every where) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon," Franklin explained to his daughter, "so that he durst not do any thing that would oblige him to run...

...statues, in prints; women did their hair a la Franklin. Franklin told his daughter that all these images have made "your father's face as well known as that of the moon."40 The king, Louis XVI, became so jealous of the adoration paid Franklin by a member of his court...

...ultimate ramifications. Combined with engraved prints and other likenesses, these medallions, he told her, "have made your father's face as well known as that...discover him wherever he should venture to show it" (Franklin 1987, 1008). Of course the hypothetical situation is absurd: Franklin was not about to turn...

...everywhere have mace your father's face as well known as the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would...discover him wherever he should venture to show it." Franklin was a martyr to the gout, and on this account begged congress to retire him in 1781. He says:...

...and prints — of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere — have made your father's •x> face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him wherever he should venture...

...in the lids of snuff-boxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings.' 'Pictures, busts, and prints have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon.' A great Parisian lady wrote fifty years later to the respectable Ticknor in language which implied...

...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon.20 Enthusiasm for fighting on the side of the Colonists grew to such proportions that even Vergennes...