Autograph letter from Philippe Antoine de Claris, marquis de Florian, to Voltaire, dated December 1774 / January 1775 [D19273].
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CMV33963
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5-240 (VI, f.115-116), ‘Lettre de Florian à Voltaire, commencement d’avril 1775’
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Autograph letter from Philippe Antoine de Claris, marquis de Florian, to Voltaire, dated December 1774 / January 1775 [D19273].
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Mon très aimable oncle, je vous envoye la lettre cy jointe qui nous annonce ce que nous désirons.
Incipit Modernised:
Mon très aimable oncle, je vous envoie la lettre ci jointe qui nous annonce ce que nous désirons.
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Philippe Antoine de Claris, Marquis de Florian, to Voltaire, dated December 1774 / January 1775.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is an autograph letter written in the hand of Philippe Antoine de Claris. It requests the addressee to provide an update on his current situation and that of Claris’s sister, while also outlining the symptoms of Claris’s latest physical ailment. According to T. D. N. Besterman, the manuscript’s foliation is 115. Additionally, T. D. N. Besterman remarks that ‘Caussy, p. 25, places this letter at the beginning of April 1775, ED1 tentatively in December 1773; the latter date is impossible since Florian was then a widower; a comparison with the references in D19248, D19311 to Cabanis and mme de Florian points to the date proposed above.’
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2 ff.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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December 1774-January 1775
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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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