BIB_ID
207774
Accession number
MA 638.22
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1760 Jan. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 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
Charavay sale (Paris 10 June 1886, p. 4, no. 25); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1900.
Summary
Lamenting that his "chers parisiens ... s'amusent de platitudes et de tracasseries quand l'état soufre dans touttes ses parties, quand la France est épuisée de sang et d'argent!"; mentioning [Jean-François] Marmontel; complaining of unscrupulous printers disfiguring La Femme qui a raison in which Madame du Châtelet first played the title role at Luneville; asking if he knows James Mackenzie's Histoire de la santé.
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