BIB_ID
295143
Accession number
MA 1565.10
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1737 Jan.] 28.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (14 p.) ; 22 cm
Notes
Date is from Besterman.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 1565 for more information.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 1565 for more information.
Provenance
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
Summary
Telling him that she will send Voltaire a packet containing his letters along those to and from the bailiff of Froulay. Reporting that Voltaire is distressed by the malicious assertions published about him in the Dutch press, hoping to ease his feelings with her letter. Letting him know that Voltaire has publicized that he is in Leyden, and saying that Voltaire will disavow any publication made without his explicit approval. Mentioning Voltaire's Mondain, Lettres Philosophiques and Philosophie de Newton, and hoping that her letter will help prevent his Philosophie from being published in Holland. Mentioning her letter to Mme. de Richelieu and that she is considering a trip to Loraine. Sending him a packet for the bailiff, but asking him to judge whether it should be forwarded.
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