Autograph letter from Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, dated 22 [January 1737] [D1265]

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CMV34535

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MA 1565.2, ‘Autograph letter : place not specified, to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, [1737 Jan.] 22.’

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Autograph letter from Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, dated 22 [January 1737] [D1265]

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Incipit Diplomatic:

Je trouue vne occasion sûre p͞r v͞s escrire, et v͞s croyez bien que ie ne la manqueray pas.

Incipit Modernised:

Je trouve une occasion sure pour vous écrire, et vous croyez bien que je ne la manquerai pas.

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No

Brief Summary:

Autograph letter from Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, dated 22 [January 1737].

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8 pp.

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Height: 217 mm

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Formerly bound with other letter in three-quarter brown morocco. Now stored unbound within a blue cloth drop-spine box.

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Undecorated

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History

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22 [January 1737]

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Passed at the Hotel Drouot sale in Paris on 23 February 1954 (Lot 25). Purchased by the Morgan Library with the Fellows Fund in 1954.

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Record created by:

Zoe Screti

Record created on:

29 August 2024