Letter
Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Paul Marat, February 25, 1782
Passy, Feb. 25. 1782 Sir, I shall endeavour to be with you by Ten a Clock in the Morning on Monday next, having a great Desire to see your Experiments.…
Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers. His periodical L'Ami du peuple made him an unofficial link with the radical Jacobin group that came to power after June 1793.
Passy, Feb. 25. 1782 Sir, I shall endeavour to be with you by Ten a Clock in the Morning on Monday next, having a great Desire to see your Experiments.…