To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Brillon de Jouy, 15 November 1778
From Jacques Brillon de Jouy
AL: American Philosophical Society
Dimanche 15. 9bre 1778.
M. Brillon presente ses respects a Monsieur franklin, il lui envoye de la part de sa femme qui n’en a nulle connoissance et qui ne revient que demain7
l’Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tirannis.
Nouvelle Composition en l’honneur du Docteur franklin8 qui heureusement pour nous sçait aussi descendre du ciel en terre et du sceptre a la houlette.
A demain le thé.
Addressed: a Monsieur / Monsieur franklin / a Passy
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
7. BF noted in his Waste Book (Account I [XXIII, 19]) on Nov. 16, the day of Mme. Brillon’s return, that he had paid her 100 l.t. for silk stockings.
8. Turgot’s famous line honoring BF was often quoted and used as a basis for “compositions”; see XXVI, 670–1n.