Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 1782
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 65v
Additional Source Text:
"Supposed by the dress to have been done in France in the beginning of this century by Monsieur [de?] Meaux, officer in the artillery of the french army of Count de Rochambeau, who died in Philad from the hurt inflicted by the lightning that struckt the minister of [France's] house march 1782."
Notes:
The Pennsylvania Journal, or, Weekly Advertiser (Philadelphia) of 10 Apr 1782 carried an account of the gruesome death of Meaux, a French artillery officer, following a lightning strike on the house of Anne-César, Chevalier de La Luzerne (1741-1791), the French ambassador from 1779-1784.
