Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, 25 July 1783

From Jean Le Rond d’Alembert9

AL: Dartmouth College Library

a Paris le 25 Juillet [1783]

M. d’Alembert a l’honneur d’assurer son illustre et respectable confrere de son respectueux attachement, et lui fait mille remercimens du beau présent qu’il a reçu de lui.1

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur franklin, / de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, / et Ministre plenipotentiaire / des Etats unis de l’Amerique / a Passy

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

9. This renowned philosophe, who admired BF (XXVI, 670n) and would have seen him at meetings of the Académie royale des sciences and at the home of Mme Helvétius (whose salon he attended), has left few traces in BF’s papers. This is his only extant letter. D’Alembert died on Oct. 29, 1783: DBF.

1. Doubtless a copy of Constitutions des treize Etats-Unis de l’Amérique.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, 25 July 1783
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    Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    25 July 1783

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, 25 July 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-40-02-0224. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 40, May 16 through September 15, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011, p. 380.]