Record ID:
309662
Accession number:
MA 1752.27
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes:
Year of writing added to date in an unknown hand; see Smith and Besterman.
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, an edition of Corneille's theatre; comparing the French to Centaurs where some, like Helvétius, are men, while others, like those who bought Offices or made themselves Doctors at the Sorbonne, remain animals.
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