BIB_ID
295579
Accession number
MA 1565.55
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1739 May] 5.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.6 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
Letting him know that she and Voltaire are about to leave for Brussels. Worrying that there will be repercussions from Voltaire's recent publications (Discours sur l'homme, Louis 14, an edition of his complete works in Holland).
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