BIB_ID
190906
Accession number
MA 4801 (32)
Creator
Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764.
Display Date
1759 June 14.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 p.)
Notes
Item 1125 in the Wrightsman gift.
Signed "La Mse de Pompadour."
With address panel.
Signed "La Mse de Pompadour."
With address panel.
Provenance
Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.
Summary
Commenting on Voltaire's desire to dedicate his tragedy of Tancrède to her: "When I determined myself to force the Marmotte of the Mount Jura I only thought of Voltaire being French and forgot he has been a Prussian. At this moment I forget it again and while I consent that he send me the manuscript of his tragedy, I would not hesitate to tell him what I think of it naturally it will be of the same kind as of (almost) all of his works that of pleasing me ... "
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