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To Benjamin Franklin from Madame Brillon, [12 February 1778]

From Madame Brillon

AL: American Philosophical Society

Ce jeudi matin [February 12, 1778?1]

Mde. Brillon a l’honneur de souhaitter le bonjour a son chér papa, et de lui faire dire que d’aprés la pérmission qu’il a bien voulu lui donnér mardi derniér, elle l’a engagé a disnér le samedi 14 fevriér chés mr. Wattellét ainsi que mr. son fils; elle prie mr. franklin le fils de vouloir bien lui faire un mot de réponse, et de méttre l’engagement du 14 sur ses tabléttes.

Mde. Brillon envoye a mr. franklin le fils un billét de bal.

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur franklin / a Passy

1. Our assumption is that she was giving BF two days’ notice of the dinner chez M. Watelet, the owner of Moulin-Joli (above, XXIV, 170–1. The year could be 1784, but by then BF rarely dined out.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Madame Brillon, [12 February 1778]
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    Brillon de Jouy, Anne-Louise Boivin d’Hardancourt
    Recipient
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    12 February 1778

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Madame Brillon, [12 February 1778],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-25-02-0514. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 25, October 1, 1777, through February 28, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986, p. 660.]

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