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COPYRIGHT 2006 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
Years ago, when I was walking through the Paris neighborhood of St.-Germain-des-Pres, a bronze plaque caught my attention. More precisely, it was the name that caught my eye: Benjamin Franklin. On September 3, 1783, the plaque noted, at 56 Rue Jacob, Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams signed the Treaty of Paris, George III's formal recognition of the colonies' independence.
Only now, however, as I check out the Web sites that mark the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth, have I...
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