Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Claude Julien, 1 January 1778

From Claude Julien9

ALS: American Philosophical Society

A Paris le 1er. Janvier 1778.

Monsieur

Je m’estimeray bien heureux si vous récévés avec bonté l’hommage de mon respect, et de mes voeux á ce renouvellement d’année, et si pendant son cours, j’ay le bonheur de mériter l’honneur de vôtre protection, et de vôtre confiance. J’ay celluy d’etre avec un trés respectueux attachement Monsieur Vôtre trés humble et trés obéïssant serviteur

Claude Julien

Banquier Ruë des vieilles Thuilleries.

Notation: Claude Julien 1. Janr. 1780. [sic] Claude Julien

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

9. A relative, we assume, of the better known Parisian bankers, Louis Julien & fils, discussed in Lüthy, Banque protestante, II, 698–700. The previous October Claude Julien had forwarded BF a memorandum about a commission-seeker: above, p. 7.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Claude Julien, 1 January 1778
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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Claude Julien, 1 January 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-25-02-0318. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 25, October 1, 1777, through February 28, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986, p. 394.]

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