BIB_ID
207811
Accession number
MA 638.62
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1776 Feb. 16.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur Le Marquis de Condorcet, / Secretaire perpétuel de l'académie des / Sciences, etc. / à Paris."
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière.
Signed "Raton."
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 trace of a seal.
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière.
Signed "Raton."
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 trace of a seal.
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
Remarking that their letters crossed; commenting on a "sauvage américain" and the persecution of M. de Lille de Sales; inquiring about a recent libel by Blondel [André Blonde, Lettre écrite à m. Turgot par un de ses amis]; asking if it is true that the cardinal of Luynes is dead.
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