Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, written from Berlin and dated 6 February 1752 [D4787]
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CMV37123
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Français 12931 (fol.4-5), ‘XXXVII Lettres à M. et à Mme d’Argental. Années 1752-1759.’
Title:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, written from Berlin and dated 6 February 1752 [D4787]
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Bibliothèque nationale de France, MF 23565
Content
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Incipit Diplomatic:
mon tres cher ange l’état ou je suis ne me laisse gueres de sensibilité que pour vos bontez et pour votre amitié.
Incipit Modernised:
Mon très cher ange l’état où je suis ne me laisse guères de sensibilité que pour vos bontez et pour votre amitié.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, written from Berlin and dated 6 February 1752.
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Physical Description
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2 ff.
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2
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Additional Comments:
A small tab of paper has been affixed to f.5v with wax. A second hand has added a note to this paper reading ‘Passage inédit’. A comparable remnant of wax, to which is stuck some paper, appears on the right-hand side of f.4r, suggesting that a second tab was once affixed here too. There is an ink blot in the left-hand margin of f.4v and a tear to the lower portion of the central bifolium fold line. The MS features a vertical fold line down along the centre of each page, and there is some ink transfer from another document on the lower portion of f.5v.
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Undecorated
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The library stamp of De Cayrol has been added to the top of f.4r. Part of l.16 on f.4v and l.5 of f.5r have been underlined and there is a minor correction to the first word of l.14 of f.5r in the form of a crossing out. Voltaire appears either to have changed his pen, or returned to the letter at a later stage as his writing becomes finer and neater from the bottom of f.5r onward. A bracket has been placed around the text to which the additional tab of paper refers on f.5v.
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History
Date:
6 February 1752
Ownership:
Owned by Louis Nicolas Jean Joachim de Cayrol (1775-1859).
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berlin
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