Record ID:
295169
Accession number:
MA 1565.19
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address panel) ; 20.1 cm
Notes:
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 1565 for more information.
Summary:
Discussing Voltaire's works Discours sur l'homme and Zublime, telling him she will probably send him the galley proof for Zublime by the end of the year. Mentioning that Voltaire is not an atheist and that he took no part in the "meditations sur le carême" (meditations on lent), and reporting that she has been hiding these accusations from him.
Provenance:
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
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