BIB_ID
309653
Accession number
MA 1752.22
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1760] Oct. 27.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to Helvétius in Paris. With additional notes.
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.
Year added to date in an unknown hand; see Smith and Besterman.
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.
Year added to date in an unknown hand; see Smith and Besterman.
Summary
Telling him about the visit of Omer [Louis François Joly] de Fleury; sharing his optimism about the 18th-century; saying that once a nation starts thinking it is impossible to prevent it from doing so; stating that the 18th-century is beginning to see the triumph of reason; telling him that it is in the interest of the King [Louis XV] that the number of philosophers increases while that of fanatics decreases.
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