Materiality: Wafer Seal
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Voltaire signs the letter as: ‘le vieux mouton broutant au pied des alpes’.
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 25 May 1761
CMV: cmv37313
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 10 January 1761
CMV: cmv37309
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 2 December 1754
CMV: cmv37268
Voltaire states that he asked for nothing more than an explanation and that the recipient was good enough to give him that. He thanks them for doing so.
Repository: Private Collection
Date: August 1764
CMV: cmv37256
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 28 February 1754
CMV: cmv37147
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.7 June 1753
CMV: cmv37140
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 24 July [1770]
CMV: cmv36343
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: [1770]
CMV: cmv36342
Besterman read the date as ‘9’ September, but the number looks very like the ‘5’ of ‘1752’. The letter was sealed using a blue sealing wafer, alternatively known as ‘pains à cacheter’. Voltaire sometimes referred to them as ‘petits pains’ [see, for instance, D8717 or D8927]. Wafer seals were used for social equals or inferiors only, reflecting the friendship between Voltaire and D’Alembert.
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 5 September 1752
CMV: cmv36643