Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from the Marquis de Ségur, 24 June 1781

From the Marquis de Ségur5

AL: American Philosophical Society

Versailles Le 24 juin 1781.

M. de segur a L’honneur d’adresser à Monsieur franklin une dépeche d’Amerique qui s’est trouvée jointe à celles qu’il a reçues cette nuit./.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. As far as we know, this is the first extant piece of correspondence between BF and the new French minister of war (XXXIV, 173n).

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    To Benjamin Franklin from the Marquis de Ségur, 24 June 1781
    Author
    Ségur, Philippe-Henri, marquis de
    Recipient
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    24 June 1781

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from the Marquis de Ségur, 24 June 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-35-02-0142. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 35, May 1 through October 31, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999, p. 189.]

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