To Benjamin Franklin from Armand-Marc-Jacques, Antoine-Hyacinthe-Anne, and Jacques-Maxime-Paul de Chastenet de Puységur, 28 February 1782

From Armand-Marc-Jacques, Antoine-Hyacinthe-Anne, and Jacques-Maxime-Paul de Chastenet de Puységur7

AL: American Philosophical Society

28 fer. 1782

Mesrs. de puysegur ont L’honneur de vous faire part de la perte quils viennent de faire de Mr Le Marquis de puysegur leur pere.

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur franquelin / A Paçy

Notation: Puysegur Messrs. de, 28. Fevr. 1782.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. Sons of the marquis de Puységur (XXIII, 570n; XXIV, 35), all of whom were in military service. We do not know which of them were in attendance at their father’s death on Feb. 28: Dictionnaire de la noblesse, V, 329–30; Courier de l’Europe, XI (1782), 187n. They were early adepts of animal magnetism and among the original subscribers to Mesmer’s Société de l’harmonie universelle: Charles C. Gillispie, Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime (Princeton, 1980), pp. 277–8, 284–8. For their later careers, see Larousse.

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Title: To Benjamin Franklin from Armand-Marc-Jacques, Antoine-Hyacinthe-Anne, and Jacques-Maxime-Paul de Chastenet de Puységur, 28 February 1782
Authors: Puységur, Armand-Marc-Jacques de Chastenet de
Puységur, Antoine-Hyacinthe-Anne de Chastenet de
Puységur, Jacques-Maxime-Paul de Chastenet de
Recipient: Franklin, Benjamin
Date: 28 February 1782

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Cite as: “To Benjamin Franklin from Armand-Marc-Jacques, Antoine-Hyacinthe-Anne, and Jacques-Maxime-Paul de Chastenet de Puységur, 28 February 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-36-02-0454. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 36, November 1, 1781, through March 15, 1782, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001, p. 626.]