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Autograph letter signed from Frederick II of Prussia to Voltaire, written from Berlin and dated 16 January 1773 [D18138]
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CMV36963
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Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Prussian Privy State Archives
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BPH, Rep. 47, Nr. 379 (58), ‘Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de’
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Je me souviens que lorsque Milton, dans ses voyages en Italie, vit représenter une assez mauvaise pièce qui avait pour titre Adam et Eve, cela réveilla son imagination, et lui donna l’idée de son poème du Paradis perdu.
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Autograph letter signed from Frederick II of Prussia to Voltaire, written from Berlin and dated 16 January 1773.
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Berlin, Germany
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