BIB_ID
295942
Accession number
MA 1565.81
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1748] Aug. 20.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18 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
Telling him she wishes she had the opportunity to receive him and his wife in Cirey; saying she is sorry to hear about the bad health of Mme. d'Argental and Mr. de Pondeueyle; discussing Semiramis and the King of Poland.
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