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Autograph letter signed "V": place not specified, to [Marie Louise Denis], Samedi, 1748 [i.e., 1745 Apr. 3].

BIB_ID
208671
Accession number
MA 6761.1
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
Samedi, 1748 [i.e., 1745 Apr. 3].
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 21.8 cm
Notes
Formerly cataloged as written on 1745 Feb. 28.
Part of a large collection of letters from Voltaire to his niece and mistress Marie Louise Mignot Denis. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient identified in Besterman.
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Telling her about his meeting with the King [Louis XV]; informing her of his hope to hold the office of historiographe de France."