BIB_ID
309644
Accession number
MA 1752.15
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1740 Oct. 27.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to Helvétius in Paris.
Part of a collection of letters from Voltaire to the philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius. Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from "La Haye, au palais du Roy de Prusse."
Part of a collection of letters from Voltaire to the philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius. Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from "La Haye, au palais du Roy de Prusse."
Summary
Encouraging him to continue working because he has what it takes to reach the top of the temple of fame; informing him that he will soon send him [Frederick II's] Anti-Machiavel; speaking highly of Frederick II; saying that Helvétius, Frederick II and Emilie du Chatelet reconcile him with the [18th] century.
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