Word: brillon
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...truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish Napoleon scrawled to Josephine from Verona. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry," wrote Oscar Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Complained Benjamin Franklin to his platonic French friend Mme. Brillon: "You find innumerable faults in me, whereas I see only one fault in you (but perhaps it is the fault of my glasses...
...Madame d'Hardancourt Brillon...
...from the dim recesses of the bookshelf of knowledge comes a work entitled The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, edited by F. H. Smith and published by the Macmillan Company in 1907. On page 206 of the seventh volume of this work appears the letter from Franklin to Mme. Brillon, called The Ephemera, written...