BIB_ID
309662
Accession number
MA 1752.27
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1761] July 22.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 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.
Year of writing added to date in an unknown hand; see Smith and Besterman.
Summary
Discussing, at length, an edition of Corneille's theatre; comparing the French to Centaurs where some, like Helvétius, are men, while others, like those who bought Offices or made themselves Doctors at the Sorbonne, remain animals.
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