To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, 13 August 1778
From Jean-Rodolphe Perronet1
ALS: American Philosophical Society
ce 13 Aoust 1778.
Mr. Perronet assure de son Respectueux attachement Monsieur Francklin et lui envoy un Plan du Combat Entre la flotte anglaise et l’Armée du Roy, persuadé qu’il pourra lui faire plaisir.
1. This is the only letter we have to BF from his fellow member of the Académie royale des sciences. Perronet (1708–94) was the leading engineer in France: Schelle, Œuvres de Turgot, IV, 123; see also Larousse. The enclosed plan, now lost, was of the first naval engagement of the war, the indecisive Battle of Ushant on July 27.