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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Red leather portfolio [realia].

BIB_ID
221705
Accession number
MA 6071
Published
[17--]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,; 1911.
Description
1 portfolio.
Notes
Voltaire gave this briefcase to the marquis de Florian, the husband of his niece Elisabeth Mignot. Her sister, Marie-Louise Mignot, Mme Denis, was Voltaire's companion for the last twenty-nine years of his life.
With extensive decorative gold tooling.
Exhibited numerous times at the Morgan Library as "Voltaire's briefcase."
43 x 32 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Stamped on front: "Portefeuille de Monsieur / de Voltaire"; on back: "Donné a Monsieur / de Florian."
Medium
Leather; gold clasp.
Classification