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| Keywords: Franklin-Benjamin-Journal-de-Paris-1784.png First page of Benjamin Franklin's anonymous letter to the editors of the Journal de Paris April 26 1784 The letter is a satire proposing various methods to awaken Parisians early in the morning in order to save money on candles and presages the idea of daylight saving time The letter is untitled and appears in the Économie section of the journal The original letter was in English but this its first publication is a French translation Cropped transformed and otherwise cleaned up from a http //www nyu edu/library/bobst/research/arch/test/nancy_franklin/B-43 jpg photograph of the original journal issue L 8 5 × H 7 × W 25 The photograph was taken for the exhibition Images of Benjamin Franklin As Seen by Himself and Others Mamdouha S Bobst Gallery Bobst Library New York University 2006 The journal was exhibit B-43 in the http //www nyu edu/library/bobst/research/arch/test/nancy_franklin/ gallery According to the http //www nyu edu/public affairs/releases/detail/867 event release the journal was in the collection of Stuart Karu 1784-04-26 Benjamin Franklin public domain Image Franklin-Benjamin-Journal-de-Paris-1784 jpg PD-old-100 Writings of Benjamin Franklin Daylight saving time Journal de Paris Letters to the editor | ||||
