BIB_ID
295280
Accession number
MA 3936.8
Creator
Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758.
Display Date
[1738 Dec. 19 or 20].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 32 letters from Madame de Graffigny to François Antoine Devaux. Letters in the collection are described individually (MA 3936.1-32).
The letter is incomplete.
The possible date is from Showalter's edition of Madame de Graffigny's letters.
The letter is incomplete.
The possible date is from Showalter's edition of Madame de Graffigny's letters.
Provenance
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Summary
Part of the letter is addressed to [Antoine Honneste] Adhémar. Describing [Emilie] du Châtelet's personality; commenting on Voltaire's Le Petit Boursoufle; discussing Abbé Desfontaines and [Jean-Baptiste] Rousseau in reference to Voltaire; informing him of Voltaire's health.
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