88 ROSENGARTEN— FRENCH MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. [April i8, 



Lieutenant General of the French ' Naval Armies,' were elected. 

 Later Cabanis, Cadet de Vaux, Le Veillard, friends of Franklin dur- 

 ing his long stay in Paris, were elected, and St. Jean de Crevecoeur, 

 long a resident in this country, — ^liis books made it known abroad, 

 and have recently been republished for their interest and value. 



In 1789 Brissot de Warville was elected, — he had travelled in 

 this country and urged French colonies in its western lands, — later 

 he came here as a refugee from the French Revolution, but re- 

 turned to France and was guillotined. Moreau de St. Mery, a 

 refugee from the French West Indies, was elected in acknowl- 

 edgment of his contributions to the Society's Transactions, — he 

 settled here, opened a book store, was a frequent attendant at the 

 meetings and helped to secure exchanges with French scientific 

 societies. 



In 1796 Lerebours and Talleyrand, and in 1800 Dupont de 

 Nemours, and in 1799, Volney — all exiles from France — were 

 elected. Later Lesseps, Consul of France in Philadelphia, and father 

 of the builder of the Suez Canal, was elected, and in 1823 Joseph 

 Bonaparte, and in 1824 his nephew Charles, both exiles after the 

 fall of Napoleon, and long residents here, were elected, with other 

 Napoleonic exiles, Real, Miot de Melito, and in 1829, Hyde de 

 Neuville, the Bourbon minister here. 



After the alliance with France, the Society voted that " ten 

 pounds of the best kind of raw silk produced in Pennsylvania be 

 sent to Lyons, there to be wrought in the most elegant manner, and 

 presented to her most Christian Majesty as a mark of very high re- 

 spect." In 1783 Jefferson moved and Reed seconded and it was 

 ordered that Rittenhouse should make an orrery to be presented to 

 his most Christian Majesty. In 1784 La Fayette, by special appoint- 

 ment, entertained the members with an account of the invisible power 

 called animal magnetism, lately discovered by Mesmer, and soon 

 after Marbois presented the report of the Commissioners appointed 

 by the King of France to investigate the' subject. 



In 1 78 1 Rochefoucault, Charles, lecturer in experimental phi- 

 losophy and aeronaut, and in 1791 Du Ponceau, aid to Steuben, and 

 in 1796 Rochefoucault de Liancourt, known by his sympathetic vol- 

 umes on his travels in this country, were elected. In 1797 Volney 



