To Benjamin Franklin from Joly de Fleury, 11 April 1783
From Joly de Fleury
AL: American Philosophical Society
11. avril. [1783]
M. Joly de fleury ancien ministre des finances8 a recue avec bien de la sensibilite la medaille9 que Monsieur francklin a bien voulu lui addresser, et le prie de recevoir son sincere remerciement de cette delicate attention.
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8. He was replaced as finance minister on March 29 by Henri-François-de-Paule Lefèvre d’Ormesson (1751–1807), who served until the following November: J. F. Bosher, French Finances, 1770–1795: from Business to Bureaucracy (Cambridge, 1970), pp. 177–8; Larousse, under Ormesson; John Hardman, French Politics, 1774–1789: from the Accession of Louis XVI to the Fall of the Bastille (London and New York, 1995), pp. 66–73, 145–50.
9. The Libertas Americana medal.