Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from the Abbés de Chalut and Arnoux, 19 March 1778

From the Abbés de Chalut and Arnoux2

AL: American Philosophical Society

Paris 19. mars [1778]

Les abbés de Chalut et Arnoux souhaitent le bonjour à leur cher et respectable Monsieur Franklin, ils le prient de recevoir la canne qu’ils lui avoient promise, comme un signe de sa mission, et un temoignage de leur estime et de leur respectueux attachement. Les deux Abbés font leurs sinceres compliments à Messieurs deane et Lée, et ils embrassent l’aimable petit fils.

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur Franklin / ministre plenipotentiaire / des Etats unis d’amerique / A Passy

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. For this inseparable pair see above, XXV, 382. Even if they knew BF by the spring of 1777, which we do not believe they did, they would not have addressed him in this style. Hence, given the greetings to Deane, 1778 is the only possible year.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from the Abbés de Chalut and Arnoux, 19 March 1778
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    Chalut, abbé ——
    Arnoux, abbé ——
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    19 March 1778

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from the Abbés de Chalut and Arnoux, 19 March 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0095. [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. 130.]