BIB_ID
295601
Accession number
MA 1565.64
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
1742 Oct. 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.1 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
Saying that she bought the fabric for Mmes. d'Argental and de Bois; asking him to pass on this information; telling him that while Voltaire was sick he reworked Zublime; saying it is now a very good play; discussing the illness of M. de Solare.
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