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Person: Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Last Resting Place of Benjamin Franklin
* Memorial to and relief bust of (with quotes from) Benjamin Franklin ,
Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau,
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
and
George Washington
* small
head
* inscription:
The last resting place of Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Venerated for benevolence, admired for talent, esteemed for
patriotism, beloved for philanthropy"
-Washington
"The sage whom two worlds claimed as their own."
-Mirabeua
"He tore from the skies the lightning and from tyrants the sceptre"
-Turgot
* Fencepost .
South side of Arch, just East of 5th.
* 39.952450,-75.148250 [map] [nearby]
* On the Independence Mall tour
* See also:
+The Electric Franklin
+wikipedia.org's Turgot page
+wikipedia.org's George Washington page
See Also
+wikipedia.org's Mirabeau page
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