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Autograph letter : Paris, to Claude Adrien Helvétius, [1761] May 11.

BIB_ID
309658
Accession number
MA 1752.26
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1761] May 11.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.6 cm
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 of writing added to date in an unknown hand; see Smith and Besterman.
Summary
Discussing truth and religion; telling him that the Jansenists who currently rule Paris are worse than the Jesuits; saying that he is happy about M. Saurin joining the Academy; discussing, at length, the character of the latter; wondering who wrote L'Oracle des fideles.