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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04963-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- May 29, 1791
- Author/Creator
- Behague, Jean Pierre Antoine, comte de, 1727-1813
- Title
- to George Washington [in French]
- Place Written
- Fort Royal, Martinique
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 31.8 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Language
- French
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
The letter, which is in French, appears to be about the request of several French officers to join the Society of the Cincinnati. Behague, Governor of the French Windward Islands, requests a diploma for himself and for Fressinaux from the Society of the Cincinnati. Also sends his regards and pleasantries to Washington. Includes, on page 2, a copy of the text of a letter from Lafayette to Behargue. Recipient inferred from content of this letter and from another letter (GLC02437.05115) written by President George Washington's secretary William Jackson, dated August 12, 1791.
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