BIB_ID
207805
Accession number
MA 638.56
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1775 Apr. 24.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur le marquis de / Condorcet."
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière, with a four-line postscript on p. [3] in Voltaire's hand.
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.
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière, with a four-line postscript on p. [3] in Voltaire's hand.
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
Commenting on the sentence in the [Jean François Lefebvre] de la Barre case; encouraging him to reason with [Jean-Baptiste-Jacques] Elie de Beaumont about the case; exhorting him to force Elie de Beaumont to serve reason and innocence ("forcez le à servir la raison et l'innocence.")
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