From Barthélemy-Pélage Georgelin du Cosquer
ALS and D: American Philosophical Society
<Paris, June 11, 1778, in French: Your concern, as an ally, for a
nation that cherishes and reveres you as much as your own
does must make you groan at the number and length of lawsuits
in France. My patriotic plan, modeled on the twenty-fifth
article of the Pennsylvania constitution, to remedy these
abuses will, I hope, have your support. The Lycurgus of the
new Sparta, the oracle of politics as well as physics, would
have the influence to assure me success. [The letter is endorsed
“Cosquer Moyen de prevenir les Proces.”]>
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