BIB_ID
295366
Accession number
MA 1565.32
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1739] Jan. 22.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Letter is dated 1738 but Besterman indicates that it is in error.
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
Mentioning that Voltaire completed Zublime and telling him that it is very moving and should be a success, but underlining the necessity of staging it swiftly. Worrying about Tiriot publishing his letter to her, and asking him to prevent it.
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