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To Benjamin Franklin from Félix Vicq d’Azyr, 23 August 1780

From Félix Vicq d’Azyr

ALS: American Philosophical Society

ce 23 aout 1780

Monsieur,

L’assemblée publique de la Societé royale de medecine aura lieu mardi 29 de ce mois;8 cette compagnie qui Se fait gloire de vous compter au nombre de Ses membres ma chargé de vous y inviter. Votre presence est un encouragement pour elle qu’elle vous prie de ne pas lui refuser.

Je Suis avec Respect, Monsieur Votre tres humble & tres obeissant Serviteur

Vicq DAZYR
Secretaire perpetuel

Mr franklin à passy

Notation Vicq d’Azir. 23 aout 1780.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8On Aug. 19 the society had sent BF tickets for this meeting and expressed the hope that he would attend (APS). The assembly convened in the pavilion de l’Infante of the Louvre. Vicq d’Azyr delivered eulogies of two former members and received high praise for his oratory, which showed him to be “le digne émule des d’Alembert & même des Condorcet”: Bachaumont, Mémoires secrets, XV, 274. For the social and political significance of his eulogies see Daniel Roche, “Talents, Reason, and Sacrifice: the Physician during the Enlightenment,” in Robert Forster and Orest Ranum, eds., Medicine and Society in France … (Baltimore and London, 1980), pp. 66–88. For details of the assembly see Jour. de Paris for Aug. 29, 31, and Sept. 1 and 2.

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