BIB_ID
295169
Accession number
MA 1565.19
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
1738 Oct. 12.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address panel) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
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
Discussing Voltaire's works Discours sur l'homme and Zublime, telling him she will probably send him the galley proof for Zublime by the end of the year. Mentioning that Voltaire is not an atheist and that he took no part in the "meditations sur le carême" (meditations on lent), and reporting that she has been hiding these accusations from him.
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