BIB_ID
294475
Accession number
MA 6787.53
Creator
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1777 July 6.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 106 letters from Beaumarchais to Madame de Godeville. The letters are described in individual records (MA 6787.1-106).
The date is in Madame de Godeville's hand.
With seal.
The date is in Madame de Godeville's hand.
With seal.
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Saying that she makes a lot of fuss about his use of the word "mischievousness" and that they misunderstand each other; insisting he is not accommodating and that his mind and his body are one; positing that when he asks favors of her he is sincere and that words like "douce fantasie" and "espièglerie" [mischievousness] are part of his vocabulary of love.
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