Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Sarsfield, 7 April 1778

From the Comte de Sarsfield

AL: American Philosophical Society

Le mardi 7 avril 1778

M. de Sarsfield envoie savoir des nouvelles de Monsieur franklin et Le prier, si cela ne le derange pas, d’avoir la bonté d’arriver chez lui demain a deux heures, deux heures et un quart au plus tard parce que M. Le prince de Tingry a une assez mauvaise santé et se trouve derangé de diner trop tard.4

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur franklin / A Passy

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. For Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg, prince de Tingry and duc de Beaumont, see Larousse under Luxembourg. Either the dinner was postponed at the last minute, or BF dined twice with the Prince within five days. On the 12th Adams described a party at which his colleagues were exposed to an harangue from Tingry about tolerating Protestants: Butterfield, John Adams Diary, IV, 50.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Sarsfield, 7 April 1778
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    Sarsfield, Guy-Claude, comte de
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    7 April 1778

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Sarsfield, 7 April 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0190. [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, pp. 254–255.]

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