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To Benjamin Franklin from Antoine-Alexis-François Cadet de Vaux, 29 March 1784

From Antoine-Alexis-François Cadet de Vaux

AL: American Philosophical Society

Ce 29 Mars 1784

M. Cadet de Vaux présente l’assurance de Son très humble respect à Monsieur franklin.

Sa commission pour la farine de Mays est faite, du moment ou Elle Sera arrivée, il en Sera prevenu.8

La cheminée poele réussit à merveille. M.M. le grand et molinos auront l’honneur d’aller en rendre compte à Monsieur franklin, un jour avec moi.9

M. Cadet prie Monsieur franklin d’accepter un Exemplaire des deux mèmoires cy joints1 et d’en faire passer un a m. l’abbe de la Roche et a M. le Veillard.

Notation: Cadet de Vaux 29 Mars 1784—

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8For a previous shipment of corn flour that Cadet had arranged, and the bread that BF made from it, see XLI, 457, 535–7.

9The stove, based on a design proposed by BF, was fabricated in February. Cadet had hoped, in vain, that BF would be able to get to Paris to inspect it. Legrand and Molinos were prominent architects whom Cadet had introduced to BF the previous October: XLI, 120, 534–5.

1Cadet may have enclosed his two recent pamphlets, Mémoire historique et physique sur le cimetière des innocents … [Paris, 1783], and Mémoire sur le méphistisme des puits … [Paris, 1783]. BF’s copies are at the APS.

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