Franklin established a small press in his Passy home, to print pamphlets and other material as part of his job to maintain French support of the revolution. He called it the Passy Press. Among other things, he printed passports, even developing a special typeface known as "le Franklin." He also printed a 1782 treatise titled "A Project for Perpetual Peace," that laid out a vision for maintaining a permanent peace in Europe. It proposed for a central governing council, with representatives of all the nations of Europe, that would rule over international disputes.
When Franklin returned to America, the new ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson, wrote, "When he left Passy, it seemed as if the village had lost its patriarch."
The Cimetière de Passy, located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing, is the burial place for many of well known persons including American silent film star Pearl White, the painters Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and composer Claude Debussy.
The tradition of the French civil service was strong in Passy's family, his uncle, Hippolyte Passy (1793-1880), rising to become a cabinet minister under both Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon.
Educated as a lawyer, Frédéric Passy entered the civil service at the age of twenty-two as an accountant in the State Council, but left after three years to devote himself to systematic study of economies.
Passy was not, however, a cloistered scholar; he was a man of action.
Remarks With Foreign Minister Solomon Passy of Bulgaria
It was my pleasure to meet the Deputy Secretary of State of the United States, Robert Zoellick.
We want to emphasize that in a way that strengthens the ability to deal with people who are caught in a tragedy that is unfair and one that we want to try to do our best to help them with as a humanitarian measure.
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