BIB_ID
207765
Accession number
MA 638.13
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1751] Jan. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
This item is part of a collection of Voltaire letters and manuscripts; see main record (MA 638) for a description of the collection as well as individual records for other items in the collection.
Provenance
Weigel sale (Leipzig 20 September 1865), pp. 44-46, in no. 1440-65; Louis de Keller sale (Paris 30 mai 1868), p. 17, no. 143; Dubrunfaut sale (Paris 22 décembre 1884), p. 7, no. 16; Liepmannssohn sale (Berlin 5 November 1907), Kat. 37, p. 100, no. 385; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1900.
Summary
Mentioning the marquis d'Adhémar; discussing court theatricals; observing that "le théâtre est la peinture de la vie humaine"; telling her, "votre altesse royale et le Roy votre frère [Frederick II] sont je croi les princes de la terre le mieux partagez en esprit et le plus mal en estomacs"; promising to visit her at Bayreuth on his way to Paris.
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