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To Benjamin Franklin from the Comtesse de Seguins, 27 May 1777

From the Comtesse de Seguins5

AL: American Philosophical Society

ce mardi 27 Mai 1777

La comtesse de seguins soeur de Mr. le comte Deslsnard desireroit avoir l’honneur de voir Monsieur franklin pour conferer avec lui sur le projet d’aller en amerique dont son frere lui a parlé. Elle prie Monsieur franklin, de vouloir bien lui faire dire si elle le trouvera ches lui jeudi matin, ou l’apres diner. Elle le prie d’adresser la reponce ches Mr. l’abbé de veri rue des sts. peres a paris.

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur franklin / A passy

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5The wife of Alexandre-Jean-Jacques-Bernard, comte de Seguins de Vassieux, chevalier de St.-Louis: Mazas, Ordre de Saint-Louis, II, 242 n. She and the abbé de Véri (for whom see Niccoli’s note above, May 26) moved in Turgot’s circle and were on occasion his house guests: Schelle, Œuvres de Turgot ... V, 492, 494. She and her brother, descended from a Veri de Canove, were presumably distant relatives of the abbé. Esprit-Toussaint-Joseph des Isnards fled to America after killing an opponent in a duel, and served as a volunteer in the campaign of 1778. Bodinier, Dictionnaire.

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