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To Benjamin Franklin from Balthazar-Georges Sage, [c. 1782?]

From Balthazar-Georges Sage

AL: American Philosophical Society

[c. 1782?]

Sage salue et Embrasse Monsieur francklin, auquel il envoye un ouvrage D’un de ses amis qui l’a prié de Lui offrir. La personne qui lui remettra Ce Billet est un medecin de ses amis qui accompagne Les princes de Carlath5 qui desirent avoir Lhonneur De Voir Monsieur francklin.

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur francklin / De Lacademie des / sciences

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5It is impossible to say with any certainty which of the Carlaths or Kolowrats (Kolowraths), aristocrats of Bohemia, are meant here. In the fall and winter of 1782, Franz-Joseph Kolowrath-Liebstensky (-Liebsteinsky), chamberlain to Joseph II and then Grand Chancellor of Bohemia, was in Paris where he was inducted into the Amis réunis: Charles Porset, Les Philalèthes et les Convents de Paris: Une politique de la folie (Paris, 1996), pp. 13–14, 568–9, 632–5; René Le Forestier, La Franc-Maçonnerie templière et occultiste aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (Paris and Leuven, 1970), pp. 733–4. Léopold de Kolowrath-Krakowski (1726–1809) was also in Paris in the last months of 1782: Gustave Bord, La Franc-Maçonnerie en France des origines à 1815 (Paris, 1908), pp. 351–2.

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