BIB_ID
207823
Accession number
MA 638.71
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1776 Sept. 7.
Description
1 item (3 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.
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.
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
Complaining about a person who wants to put "Shakespear à la place de Corneille"; writing of this man that "si l'excez de sa turpitude doit nous faire vomir, l'éxcez de son insolence orgueilleuse devait nous faire horreur"; sending thanks for the anonymous edition of the Pensées de Pascal that Condorcet had published in London in 1776.
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