Contemporary copy of a letter from Voltaire to Charles Étienne Pesselier, written from Aux Délices and dated 30 October 1758 [D7923]
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CMV34273
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FS 318 E 55, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à Charles Étienne Pesselier, employé dans les fermes du Roi [texte manuscrit]’
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Contemporary copy of a letter from Voltaire to Charles Étienne Pesselier, written from Aux Délices and dated 30 October 1758 [D7923]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Enfin, m., à force de recherches, j’ai découvert tout ce que je vous dois.
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No
Brief Summary:
Contemporary copy of a letter from Voltaire to Charles Étienne Pesselier, written from Aux Délices and dated 30 October 1758.
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Physical Description
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1 f.
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132 x 93 mm
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1
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A second, unknown hand has added a note to the MS which reads ‘Journal des Dames, février 1768, pag.5’.
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30 October 1758
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Aux Délices
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This may be the copy, from the papers of the bookseller Prault, which belonged in 1850 to E. G. B. Rathery, according to his ‘Variétés littéraires’, Bulletin du bibliophile (Paris 1850), ix.880.
Bibliography
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Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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