Autograph letter from Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, written from Cirey and dated 27 [December 1736] [D1235]

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CMV34537

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MA 1565.3, ‘Autograph letter : Cirey, to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, [1736 Dec.] 27.’

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Autograph letter from Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, written from Cirey and dated 27 [December 1736] [D1235]

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Autograph letter from Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, written from Cirey and dated 27 [December 1736].

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8 pp.

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Height: 193 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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27 [December 1736]

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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