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To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte d’Estaing, 14 March 1780

From the Comte d’Estaing

AL: American Philosophical Society

Paris ce 14. Mars 1780.

Les occasions de faire sa cour á Monsieur franklin, et de profiter de ses bontés, sont trop precieuses a M d’Estaing pour en perdre aucune; il a l’honneur de l’assurer de son respect, et qu’il redeviendra demain avec grand plaisir Citoyen de Passy6 pour diner avec lui.

Notation: M. D’Estaing Paris ce 14. mars. 1780.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6Since returning from his unsuccessful attack on Savannah (XXXI, 65n), the admiral had been recuperating from his wounds at his country house at Passy: Jacques Michel, La vie aventureuse et mouvementée de Charles-Henri Comte d’Estaing (n.p., 1976), pp. 237, 247–8. He seems to have known BF since before the American moved to Passy: XXIII, 67.

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