BIB_ID
207830
Accession number
MA 638.79
Creator
Villevieille, Jean François Dufour, seigneur de, active 1768-1778.
Display Date
1777 Oct. 22.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur Le Marquis de Condorcet, / Secretaire perpétuel de l'académie des / Sciences, etc. / en son hotel / à Paris."
Includes an autograph postscript signed with an initial by Voltaire (7 lines).
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 trace of a seal.
Includes an autograph postscript signed with an initial by Voltaire (7 lines).
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 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
Discussing two tragedies, Agatocle tiran de Siracuse and Alexis Comnenne.
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