BIB_ID
119631
Accession number
MA 639.2
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1777 Sept. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.6 cm
Notes
Dated "16 7bre 1777."
Le Chevalier d'Eon, a French diplomat, spy and soldier, lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman.
Part of a collection of five letters from Voltaire. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Voltaire's home, the Chateau de Ferney (now known as the Château de Voltaire).
Le Chevalier d'Eon, a French diplomat, spy and soldier, lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman.
Part of a collection of five letters from Voltaire. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Voltaire's home, the Chateau de Ferney (now known as the Château de Voltaire).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Saying that his London friend George Keate encouraged an "old and dying man that he may before his last day have the honor to see a captain-Lady very famous in the world."
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