BIB_ID
295175
Accession number
MA 1565.24
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
1738 Oct. 29.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 20 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
Seeking help to get out of a dreadful situation. Reporting that she has been hiding the diatribes against Voltaire, and telling him that she burnt the contents of Lamare's packet (including Desfontaines's lampoon and a letter informing Voltaire of the attacks against him, as well as the Epître à Uranie, a letter about Lock, and Rousseau's epigrams). Mentioning that Lamare returned the manuscript L'Envieux.
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