Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Vergennes, 12 March 1779

From Vergennes

L (draft):4 Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères

A Vlles le 12 Mars 1779.

J’ai communiqué à M. de Sartine, M. la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de mècrire au sujet de l’affaire du S. MaCniel;5 vous verrez par la rèponse ci jointe du 2. Mars de ce Ministre6 qu’il se propose d’en faire incessamment le raport au Conseil royal des finances/.7

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[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4In Gérard de Rayneval’s hand.

5Above, before March 2.

6The enclosure, signed by Sartine, explains the procedural difficulties of the case. AAE. The phrase “du 2. mars” is written in the margin in another hand and its place in the text is marked by an asterisk.

7For this council, which met weekly, see Marcel Marion, Dictionnaire des institutions de la France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Paris, 1969 [reprint of 1923 ed.]), pp. 134–5. Its members are listed in the Almanach Royal for 1779, p. 187.

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