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To Benjamin Franklin from the Abbés Chalut and Arnoux, 17 August 1779

From the Abbés Chalut and Arnoux

AL:4 American Philosophical Society

passy mardi 17 aout. [1779]

Les abbés de Chalut et Arnoux ont l’honneur de faire leurs compliments respectueux à Monsieur franklin et de faire leurs amitiés à Monsieur son petit fils et de leur proposer d’aller diner demain mercredi à St. Cloud chez M. de Chalut fermier general qui est très empressé de recevoir le pere et le fils, on ne dinera qu’à quatre heures.5

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur franklin Ministre / plenipotentiaire des Etats / unis d’Amerique / à Passy

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. In Arnoux’s hand.

5. The farmer general, a very wealthy man, had bought his first house in St. Cloud in 1749. He kept buying more, as well as land and vineyards: Yves Durand, Les Fermiers généraux au XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1971), p. 147.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from the Abbés Chalut and Arnoux, 17 August 1779
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    Chalut, abbé ——
    Arnoux, abbé ——
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    17 August 1779

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from the Abbés Chalut and Arnoux, 17 August 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-30-02-0180. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 30, July 1 through October 31, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993, p. 236.]