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To François Barbé-Marbois -

Paris March 1st. 1780
You advised me to take my Son with ...

From Bidé de Chavagnes -

ca. 2 March 1780
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To Benjamin Franklin

Docno: PJA09d006

Author: JA
Recipient: Franklin, Benjamin
Date: 1780-03-02

[dateline] Passy March 2d. 1780

Mr. Adams's respectfull Compliments to Dr. Franklin, informs him that Monsieur the Comte De Vergennes has appointed him next Tuesday to be at Versailles in order to be presented to the King and Royal Family.1 Mr. Adams will have the Honour to breakfast at Passy with Dr. Franklin, at an hour early enough to go to Versailles, which he supposes will be 8 oClock.
RC PPAmP: Franklin Papers; addressed: “His Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esqr.”
 
1. The presentation took place on 7 March; see JA's first letter of 8 March to the president of Congress (No. 14, below).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
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