Bon-Bon (short story) Aristophanes, Catullus, Hippocrates, Quintilian and François Marie Arouet (the real name of Voltaire). As Bon-Bon is offering his own soul, the Devil sneezes, referring to an earlier moment in the story when the Devil says that men dispel bad ideas by sneezing. An editorial in the "Philadelphia Saturday Courier" thanked Poe for submitting the stories. The writer, presumably the editor, Lambert A. Wilmer, added that "we have read these tales, every syllable, with the greatest pleasure, and for originality, richness of imagery and purity of the style, few American authors in our opinion have produced any thing superior". A reviewer
French ship Héros (1778) French ship Héros (1778) Héros was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, known mostly for being the flagship of Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez during the Anglo-French War. She was built in 1778 at Toulon on a design by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb. In 1781 she became part of Suffren's force, consisting of the 16-gun frigate "Fortune", five ships of the line, eight troopships and a thousand soldiers, all entrusted with carrying the French war effort into the Indian Ocean. The other warships were one other 74 gun ship (the "Annibal") and three 64-gun ships (the