BIB_ID
295578
Accession number
MA 1565.54
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1739 Jan.] 31.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.7 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
Expressing surprise that he has not yet received the tragedy Voltaire and she sent him and mentioning the letters Voltaire sent and would like him to pass on (his statement and a letter to the assistant public prosecutor). Asking him to dissuade Voltaire from going to Paris.
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