1778
ID: 598
Franklin's fur cap becomes Paris fashion sensation - 'coiffure à la Franklin' - cultivates frontier image
ID: 598
1778
ID: 599
Franklin joins Lodge of Nine Sisters Paris - most prestigious Enlightenment lodge with Voltaire, Condorcet, Danton
ID: 599
1778
ID: 600
Franklin meets Voltaire at Academy of Sciences - theatrical embrace as 'Solon and Sophocles'
ID: 600
1778
ID: 601
Young Robespierre visits aging Rousseau - later implements Social Contract ideas in Revolutionary Terror
ID: 601
1778
ID: 602
Smallpox devastates Plains Indians - Oglala Lakota designate 1780-81 as 'Many died of smallpox'
ID: 602