BIB_ID
207795
Accession number
MA 638.46
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1774 May 4.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur le Marquis / De Condorcet, Secrétaire de / l'académie des Sciences."
Possibly not in Voltaire's hand.
Signed "Le vieux Malade."
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.
Possibly not in Voltaire's hand.
Signed "Le vieux Malade."
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 11 avril 1876), p. 10, no. 113; Charavay sale (Paris 20 juin 1881), p. 45, no. 249; bought by [Alphonse Wyatt?] Thibaudeau, sale of a French collection, Sotheby (London 24 November 1886), p. 34, no. 198; Gourio de Refuge sale (Paris 23 décembre 1902), p. 23, no. 196.
Summary
Indicating that an unknown scribe is writing the letter for him; praising the marquis de Condorcet's Eloges; comparing his Eloges to the operas of [Jean-Philippe] Rameau and [Christoph Willibald] Gluck.
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