Joseph Alphonse de Véri

Joseph Alphonse de Véri (16 October 1724 – 28 August 1799) was a French abbot. Son of Louis de Veri, a descendant of a noble Florentine family that had settled in the Papal States, Veri was educated at The Sorbonne in Paris, where he gained a doctorate in theology. He was described as an "enlightened clergyman and great admirer of Benjamin Franklin”[1] and Jean-Frédéric de Maurepas’s intimate and confessor.[2]

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  1. ^ Conisbee, P., Rand, R., Baillio, J. (2009). French Paintings of the Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth Century. National Gallery of Art., p. 258
  2. ^ Hibbert, C. (2012). The Days of the French Revolution. HarperCollins.
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