Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Bruet, 22 August 1783

From the Comte de Bruet5

AL: American Philosophical Society

a paris le 22 aoust 1783.

M. Le cte de Bruet a reçû avec la plus grande sensibilité lexemplaire6 que Monsieur franklin a eu lattention et lhonnetteté de luÿ adresser il luÿ en fait mile remerciements et il seroit bien flatté de trouver les occasions de luÿ en marquer toute Sa reconoissance.

Mde de Bruet fait mille et mille Compliments a messieurs franklin et ne pouvent etre plus sensible a leur souvenir

Notation: Le Cte. de Bruet

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. Most likely Joseph-Clément-Marie, comte de Bruet, a gentleman in waiting to the comte de Provence: Dictionnaire de la noblesse; Almanach de Versailles for 1781, p. 150. This is his only letter to BF, though his wife sent New Year’s greetings on Jan. 1, 1784, and eight months later the comte informed WTF of the birth of their son. (Both letters are at the APS.)

6. Probably a copy of Constitutions des treize Etats-Unis de l’Amérique.

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    Franklin Papers
    Title
    To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Bruet, 22 August 1783
    Author
    Bruet, the Comte de
    Recipient
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    22 August 1783

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Bruet, 22 August 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-40-02-0311. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 40, May 16 through September 15, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011, pp. 499–500.]