BIB_ID
309670
Accession number
MA 1752.30
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1763 Oct. 4.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and simply addressed "A Monsieur / Monsieur helvetius."
Dated "4 8bre 1763" by Voltaire.
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.
Dated "4 8bre 1763" by Voltaire.
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.
Summary
Discussing, at length, a decree from the Sorbonne and a prosecution speech from M. [Maître] Omer; urging him to fight back and to let the truth be known; suggesting that he write a "history of contradictions."
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