To Benjamin Franklin from Cadet de Vaux, 8 December 1783
From Cadet de Vaux
AL: American Philosophical Society
Ce 8 Xbre 1783
M. Cadet de Vaux présente l’assurance de Son très humble respect a Monsieur franklin et a l’honneur de lui Envoyer une lettre de Monsieur le lieutenant Général de Police,9 et deux billets que M.M. le Grand et Molinos1 l’ont chargé de faire accepter à Monsieur franklin./.
Notation: Cadet de Vaux 8 Xbre 83
9. Lenoir’s letter of Dec. 4.
1. The architects of the spectacular new dome for the Halle au Blé; see Cadet de Vaux to BF, Oct. 19. The tickets may have been for the public celebration of the peace held at the Halle au Blé on Sunday, Dec. 14, the largest of the celebrations that took place all over the city that day. In anticipation of the crowds, the government issued orders concerning the routes by which carriages and people on foot were to arrive: Jour. de Paris, Dec. 11, 12, 14, 1783; Bachaumont, Mémoires secrets, XXIV, 78–80. BF’s own residence was illuminated on Dec. 14, at a cost of 254 l.t.: Account XXXI (XXXVIII, 3); Finck’s bill, [after Jan. 1, 1784]. APS.