Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from the Duchesse de Civrac, 25 [March?] 1778

From the Duchesse de Civrac6

AL: American Philosophical Society

Bellevue le 25 [March, 1778?7]

Mesdames desirent que monsieur franklin vienne les voir a bellevues aujourdhui, ou demain si ces affaires le lui permetent. Elles ont chargé mde de civrac de faire parvenir leur volonté a mr. franklin. Les ocasions de l’assurer de tous ces sentiments est infiniment pretieuse a la duchesse de civrac.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6. Née Marie-Anne de La Faurie de Monbadon. She had married Emeric-Joseph de Durfort-Civrac (Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, VI, 66 n), and was a lady-in-waiting to Mesdames, the three unmarried daughters of Louis XV.

7. The Château de Bellevue, the former residence of Mme. de Pompadour, had been conferred on Mesdames in 1775. We are assuming that the invitation to BF followed closely upon his reception by the King and Queen.

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    Franklin Papers
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    To Benjamin Franklin from the Duchesse de Civrac, 25 [March?] 1778
    Author
    Civrac, Marie-Anne de La Faurie de Monbadon, duchesse de
    Recipient
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    25 March 1778

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from the Duchesse de Civrac, 25 [March?] 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0119. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 26, March 1 through June 30, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, p. 165.]