Autograph letter from Henri Jean Baptiste Fabry de Moncault, comte d’Autrey, to Voltaire, dated 1 July 1765 [D12783].
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CMV33952
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5-240 (III, f.224–241), ‘Lettre [V] ‘de M. le marquis d’Autrey’ adressée à Voltaire, le 1er juillet [1765]’
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Autograph letter from Henri Jean Baptiste Fabry de Moncault, comte d’Autrey, to Voltaire, dated 1 July 1765 [D12783].
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Je m’attendais bien, Monsieur, à trouver dans votre lettre des choses aimables et polies
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Je m’attendais bien, Monsieur, à trouver dans votre lettre des choses aimables et polies
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Henri Jean Baptiste Fabry de Moncault, comte d’Autrey, to Voltaire, dated 1 July 1765.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is an autograph letter, written in the hand of Henri Jean Baptiste Fabry de Moncault. The letter expresses gratitude for Voltaire’s feedback on Le Pyrrhonien raisonnable, challenges the Judaic interpretations of The Bible, contests the myths surrounding Moses, and reflects on moral imperatives and religious maxims.
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18 ff.
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1
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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1 July 1765
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Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)
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