To Benjamin Franklin from Vergennes, 7 March 1779
From Vergennes
L (draft):7 Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copy: Library of Congress
A Versailles le 7. Mars 1779.
J’ai l’honneur de vous prèvenir M. que le Roi ne recevra pas les Ambassadrs. et Ministres étrangers mardy prochain;8 au moyen de quoi votre presentation ne pourra avoir lieu que le mardy 16. de ce mois/.
M. franklin
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
7. In the hand of Joseph-Mathias Gérard de Rayneval (XXVI, 376n), a premier commis (undersecretary) of Vergennes.
8. At his weekly reception for foreign diplomats, during which BF hoped to present his new credentials as American minister plenipotentiary; see the duc de Croÿ’s account of a dinner with BF, March 1.