BIB_ID
207786
Accession number
MA 638.35
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1772 May 11].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur Le Marquis De / Condorcet, de l'académie des / Sciences etc. / rue de Bourbon fbrg. St. Germain / à Paris."
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière.
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.
With postmark and seal.
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière.
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.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1900.
Summary
Regretting the king's veto of the election of [Jacques] Delille and [Jean-Baptiste-Antoine] Suard to the Académie française; hoping that M. [Jean Le Rond] d'Alembert will be able to set things straight at the Académie française if he becomes secrétaire perpétuel; noting that "les ouragans passent, et la philosophie demeure"; advising a young author to wait for a more favorable climate to introduce his tragedy with "un grain de philosophie."
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