Letter from Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet-Lomont to Nicolas-Claude Thiériot, dating to 9 December 1738 [D1680]
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MS 120.10
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Letter from Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet-Lomont to Nicolas-Claude Thiériot, dating to 9 December 1738 [D1680]
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Les soins que vous voulez bien vous donner pour me faire avoir la plus jolie maison de Paris
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Les soins que vous voulez bien vous donner pour me faire avoir la plus jolie maison de Paris
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Letter from Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet-Lomont to Nicolas-Claude Thiériot, dating to 9 December 1738.
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Du Châtelet thanks Thiériot for the trouble he has taken in order that she may have the finest house in Paris and notes that she has received an answer from the crown prince about her Essai sur le feu. She writes that she hopes to inspire him with a taste for physics and make him give up his mania for verse because ‘one can very well be a mediocre physicist, but it is not permitted to be a bad poet.’ Du Châtelet writes that since Thiériot left her, she has developed an interest in lawsuits and then turns to literary and artistic news, mentioning among others Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Francesco Algarotti, Roland Desalleurs, John Hervey, Jean-Henri Castéra, Jean-Nicolas Formont, and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
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4 ff.
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Owned by Theodore Besterman (1904-1976).
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vol.89, ‘D1680’, p.409
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