To Benjamin Franklin from Claude-Gabriel de Choisy and Pierre-François de Béville, 28 April 1783
From Claude-Gabriel de Choisy8 and Pierre-François de Béville9
AL:1 American Philosophical Society
ce 28 avril 1783.
Mrs. de choisy et de Béville Sont venu pour Saluer Son Excellence le Docteur Franklin et luy faire leur remerciments de la Medaille2 qu’il a bien voulu leur envoyer./.
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
8. Choisy (b. 1723) was a maréchal de camp who had served with Rochambeau. Like Béville, he recently had returned to France aboard the frigate Emeraude: DBF; Bodinier, Dictionnaire; Six, Dictionnaire biographique; Rice and Brown, eds., Rochambeau’s Army, I, 84n and passim.
9. For whom see Du Bouchet to BF, March 17.
1. In Choisy’s hand.
2. Doubtless a Libertas Americana medal.