To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [17 May 1784]

From Lafayette

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Paris Monday Evening [May 17, 1784]3

My dear Sir

In Case the Arret for our free ports Has not Yet Come to Your Excellency’s Hands, I Have the Honour to Send You one Which I Have just Now Got— Most Respectfully and Affectionately Yours

Lafayette

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. The day Calonne sent Lafayette 24 copies of the May 14 arrêt concerning free ports. Lafayette had tried to influence the government’s selection by writing to Calonne, Vergennes, and Castries: XXXIX, 104n; XLI, 286; Giunta, Emerging Nation, II, 369.

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Source Project: Franklin Papers
Title: To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [17 May 1784]
Author: Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
Recipient: Franklin, Benjamin
Date: 17 May 1784

Reference

Cite as: “To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [17 May 1784],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-42-02-0163. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 42, March 1 through August 15, 1784, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 254.]

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