Record ID:
295395
Accession number:
MA 1565.35
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description:
1 item (8 p.) ; 19.7 cm
Notes:
Year is from Besterman.
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:
Reporting what Le Ratz de Lanthenée wrote to Voltaire about his conversation with Desfontaines and mentioning the Epître à Uranie and Les Lettres Philosophiques. Reporting that Voltaire will not publish his statement without comte d'Argental's approval and asking for advice regarding cardinal Fleury. Discussing Voltaire's trip to Paris, the lawsuit, and St Hiacinte and mentioning that the affair with Tiriot is subsiding.
Provenance:
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
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