Letter : Cirey, France, to Marie-Louise Mignot, afterwards Denis, Paris, 1737 Dec. 7.
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*KGV 10-250
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Letter : Cirey, France, to Marie-Louise Mignot, afterwards Denis, Paris, 1737 Dec. 7.
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je reçois ma chere enfant votre lettre du 1er decembre.
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Louis Denis [née Mignot] [née Mignot], written from Cirey and dated 7 December 1737.
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Voltaire proposes that Marie-Louis Denis [née Mignot] [née Mignot] should marry Louis François Toussaint du Ravet de Champbonin, the son of a neighbor, and offers a dowry and help with her establishment. He then denies rumors that he planned to move to Prussia at the invitation of Frederick II, and comments on his relationship with the du Châtelets.
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2 ff.
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200 x 151 mm
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1
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The paper features multiple horizontal and vertical fold lines.
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