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To Benjamin Franklin from the Abbé Arnoux, [before May 1780]

From the Abbé Arnoux

AL: American Philosophical Society

[before May 1780]9

L’abbé Arnoux prie Monsieur franklin de lui donner une lettre de Recommandione auprès de quelques uns de ses amis de Neuport de providence ou de Rhodisland pour M. Petry Secretaire de l’armée françoise aux ordres de M. de Rochambeau, et sous Lieutenant d’infanterie.1

M. petry est très honnette, et on ne scauroit dire trop de bien de son esprit et de son Caractere. Les personnes à qui il sera recommandé seront surement bien aises de le Connoitre.2

Notation: L’abbé Arnoux.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

9When Rochambeau sailed for America.

1Perhaps Jean-Baptiste Petry who in 1783 began his lengthy consular career as vice-consul at Charleston: Abraham P. Nasatir and Gary Elwyn Monell, comps., French Consuls in the United States: a Calendar of their Correspondence in the Archives Nationales (Washington, 1967), p. 567.

2According to an Oct. 15, 1781, letter from Petry’s brother, BF had provided letters of introduction to Philadelphia, Boston, and other places. University of Pa. Library.

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