Autograph letter from Voltaire to Nicolas Claude Thieriot, dating to 25 March 1729 [D346]
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CMV34312
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FS 316 C 8, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à Nicolas-Claude Thieriot, chez Monsieur Nossé, cloître Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois, à Paris [texte manuscrit]’
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Autograph letter from Voltaire to Nicolas Claude Thieriot, dating to 25 March 1729 [D346]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
If you can forget a few days yr golden palace, yr feasts, and fumum et opes strepitum que Romæ, come hither.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Voltaire to Nicolas Claude Thieriot, dating to 25 March 1729.
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Physical Description
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2 ff.
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224 x 169 mm
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2
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Bound with other Voltaire manuscripts in red morocco.
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A postmark has been stamped on f.2v. A second, unknown hand has added the date ’25 [deletion: avril] Mars 1729′ to the MS. Ommitted text has been added superscript on l.10 of f.1r, and a word on l.13 of the same has been underlined.
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[25 March 1729]
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Owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), Georges Blumenthal (1858-1941), and Paul-Auguste-Cyrille de Launoit (1891-1981).
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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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