Letter from Voltaire to François Robin de Scévole, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 10 March 1772 [D17632a]
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D17632a, ‘Lettre à Monsieur De Scévole (framed)’
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Letter from Voltaire to François Robin de Scévole, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 10 March 1772 [D17632a]
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Le viellard de Soixante et dix huit ans très malade et prèsque aveugle, a recu au milieu des neiges des alpes et du mont Jura, les vers et la prose dont Monsieur De Scévole l’honore.
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A letter from Voltaire to François Robin de Scévole, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 10 March 1772.
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Voltaire writes that he, ‘the sixty-eight-year-old man, very sick and near blind, received in the middle of the snows of the Alps and Mount Jura, the verses and prose with which Mr. De Scévole honours him. If something could revive him, it would be by the pleasure he felt reading them. The state in which he is does not allow him to express as he would like the recognition with which he is penetrated.’
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The letter is sealed with red wax.
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A small note has been added to the left-hand side of the letter’s signature in a different hand to the body of the text. It reads: ‘letter de Mr. D. Voltaire’. A postmark for [GE]NEVE, now faded, has been added at the bottom right of the signature.
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