[Footnote 29:  Galiani, Correspondance, Tom.  II. p. 275, Lettre de 25 Juillet, 1778.  Nobody saw America with a more prophetic eye than this inspired Pulcinello of Naples.  As far back as the eighteenth of May, 1776, several weeks before the Declaration of Independence, he wrote,—­“The epoch is come for the total fall of Europe and its transmigration to America.  Do not buy your house in the Chaussee d’Antin, but at Philadelphia.  The misfortune for me is that there are no abbeys in America.”  Tom.  II. p. 203.  See also Grimm, Correspondence, Tom.  IX. p. 285 (1776).]

[Footnote 30:  The dictionaries of Michaud and Didot concur in the date of her death; but there is reason to suppose that they are both mistaken.]

[Footnote 31:  See Querard, La France Litteraire, article La Rochefoucauld.]

[Footnote 32:  Tom.  I. p. 168.]

[Footnote 33:  Oeuvres de Turgot, Tom.  I. p. 416.]

[Footnote 34:  Franklin, Works, by Sparks, Vol.  V. p. 124.]

[Footnote 35:  Oeuvres de Turgot, Tom.  I. p. 414; Tom.  IX. p. 416; Oeuvres de Condorcet, Tom.  V. p. 162.]

[Footnote 36:  Cabanis, Oeuvres, Tom.  V. p. 261; Mignet, Notices et Portraits, Tom.  II. p. 475.  See, also, Morellet, Memoires, Tom.  I. p. 290.  Cabanis and Morellet both lived for many years under the hospitable roof of Madame Helvetius.  It is the former who has preserved the interesting extract from the letter of Franklin.  Nobody who has visited the Imperial Library at Paris can forget the very pleasant autograph note of Franklin in French to Madame Helvetius, which is exhibited in the same case with an autograph note of Henry IV. to Gabrielle d’Estrees.]

[Footnote 37:  Tom.  II. p. 83.  See, also, p. 337.]

[Footnote 38:  Tom.  II. p. 465.  See, also, the letter of the Marquis de Chastellux to Professor Madison on the Fine Arts in America, where the generous Frenchman recommends for all our great towns a portrait of Franklin, “with the Latin verse inscribed in France below his portrait.”  Chastellux, Travels in North America, Vol.  II. p. 372.]

[Footnote 39:  Chambelland, Vie du Prince de Bourbon-Conde, Tom.  I. p. 374.]

[Footnote 40:  Capefigue, Louis XVI., Tom.  II. pp. 49, 50.]

[Footnote 41:  Lacretelle, Histoire de France pendant le 18me Siecle, Tom.  V. p. 91.  The historian errs in putting this success in 1777, before the date of the Treaty; and he errs also with regard to the Court, if he meant to embrace the King and Queen.]

[Footnote 42:  Memoires sur Marie Antoinette, par Madame Campan, Tom.  I. p. 251.]

[Footnote 43:  Bulletin de l’Alliance des Arts, 10 Octobre, 1843.  See also Goncourt, Histoire de Marie Antoinette, p. 221.]

[Footnote 44:  Grimm, Correspondance, Tom.  XVI. p. 407.]