Autograph letter : place not specified, to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental, [1739 May] 5.

Record ID: 
295579
Accession number: 
MA 1565.55
Author: 
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description: 
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes: 

Date 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: 

Letting him know that she and Voltaire are about to leave for Brussels. Worrying that there will be repercussions from Voltaire's recent publications (Discours sur l'homme, Louis 14, an edition of his complete works in Holland).

Provenance: 
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).