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To Benjamin Franklin from Nicholas Geoffroy, [18 December 1782]

From Nicholas Geoffroy5

ADS: American Philosophical Society

[December 18, 1782]

Le né. [nommé] Bonnefoi6 a remis à la secretairerie de M Le Comte De Vergennes la Lettre de Monsieur francklin7 aujourd’hui 18 Xbre. 1782 à sept heures et demie du Soir.

Geoffroy

Secretre de M. Le Cte. De Vergennes./.

Notation: Comte de Vergennes 18th. Decr. 1782 Versailles

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. A sous-commis under Vergennes and later Montmorin, Geoffroy was the only member of their staff to desert the royalty during the Revolution. After he joined the Jacobins, his career prospered. He rose to first secretary, then chef du bureau, and finally head of the dépôt des archives: Frédéric Masson, Le Département des affaires étrangères pendant la Révolution, 1787–1804 (Paris, 1877), pp. 35, 140n, 166, 255–6.

6. Jean-Nicolas Bonnefoÿ, BF’s gardener, occasionally ran errands: XXXIV, 5; XXXVII, 4.

7. Doubtless BF’s letter of the previous day to Vergennes, above.

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Nicholas Geoffroy, [18 December 1782],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-38-02-0349. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 38, August 16, 1782, through January 20, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 469.]