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”Conisbee, P., Rand, R., Baillio, J. (2009). French Paintings of the Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth Century. National Gallery of Art., p. 258 and Jean-Frédéric de Maurepas’s intimate and confessor.Hibbert, C. (2012). The Days of the French Revolution. HarperCollins.
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