BIB_ID
295904
Accession number
MA 1565.72
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
1743 Oct. 22.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address panel) ; 22.7 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
Complaining that Voltaire does not write to her and that she only knows about his travels through her relations and public announcements; saying that in the near future Voltaire will be in Berlin, Bareigh, Brunswick and la Haie, telling him she does not understand why Voltaire's trip is taking so long; asking him to write to Voltaire to let him know that he is hurting her; saying she is feeling ill.
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