To Benjamin Franklin from the Marquis and Marquise de Lafayette and Jean-Baptiste de Gouvion, 27 March 1784
From the Marquis and Marquise de Lafayette and Jean-Baptiste de Gouvion
L: American Philosophical Society
Paris Ce 27. mars [1784?]9
Mr et Mde. La Marquise De lafayette et Mr. De Gouvion profiteront avec grand plaisir de l’Invitation de Monsieur Franklin et auront l’honneur de Diner chez lui Dimanche.
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
9. The earliest possible year, though the note could also have been written in 1785. Lafayette’s former aide Gouvion (XXIII, 160–1n) was in America on March 27 from 1777 through 1781 (XXXVI, 527) and again in 1783. The year 1782 is impossible, as Lafayette was not in Paris on that date: Idzerda, Lafayette Papers, V, 25, 116n; Morris Papers, VIII, 646n.