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First page of Benjamin Franklin's anonymous letter to the editors of the Journal de Paris, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/April_26" title="April 26">April 26</a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/1784" class="mw-redirect" title="1784">1784</a>. 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.
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| current | 10:11, 5 January 2017 | | 1,354 × 1,950 (3.26 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>First page of Benjamin Franklin's anonymous letter to the editors of the <i>Journal de Paris</i>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/April_26" title="April 26">April 26</a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/1784" class="mw-redirect" title="1784">1784</a>. 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. </p> |
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