BIB_ID
295591
Accession number
MA 1565.58
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1741] May 2.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (9 p.) ; 19.8 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.
Year is from Besterman.
Year is from Besterman.
Provenance
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
Summary
Discussing her literary quarrel with [Jean-Jacques D'Ortous de] Mairan. Reporting that she and Voltaire saw Mahomet twice and recommending [Jean-Baptiste Sauvé] La Nouë for the Paris performance. Reflecting on the death of Maupertuis (but then refuting this statement and saying that he is in fact alive and in Viene). Noting that the King of Prussia wrote a letter to Voltaire.
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