Autograph letter from Voltaire to Marguerite Madeleine Du Moutier, marquise de Bernières, dating to c.5 September 1724 [D205]
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CMV35859
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Français 12936 (p.5-6)
Title:
Autograph letter from Voltaire to Marguerite Madeleine Du Moutier, marquise de Bernières, dating to c.5 September 1724 [D205]
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Bibliothèque nationale de France, MF 23570
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Incipit Diplomatic:
je sors de la mort, jai eü huit accez de fievre dans un malheureux hotel garni où je me suis loge
Incipit Modernised:
Je sors de la mort, j’ai eü huit accez de fièvre dans un malheureux hôtel garni où je me suis logé
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Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Voltaire to Marguerite Madeleine Du Moutier, marquise de Bernières, dating to c.5 September 1724.
Detailed Summary:
Voltaire notes that he has been seriously ill and close to death, having caught a fever in a hotel he had stayed in. He adds the the Duc de Sulli is leaving his house to take Votlaire to Sulli, but that he will travel instead to Marguerite Madeleine Du Moutier, marquise de Bernières if she would prefer. Voltaire states his desire to go and take care of his health and Henri IV at her home, spending quiet days there. He adds that he hates crowds as much as he loves her so will not mind if she does not have company. He concludes by saying that he has no further news other that the smallpox of Mademoiselle de Sens and the disease of the king of Spain, adding that he wanted to write to his friend Thiériot but does not have the strength.
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1 f.
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2
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The MS is bound with other letters in the collection.
Additional Comments:
The MS was folded in half horizontally (since unfolded).
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Undecorated
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The MS has been stamped with the library stamp of Louis-Nicholas-Jean-Joachim de Cayrol. A second hand had added a provenance note to the top of p.5 and a bibliographical reference to the bottom of the same. The same hand has also endorse the MS as ‘No.1*’ in the upper left-hand corner of p.5.
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Date:
[c.5 September 1724]
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Owned by Louis-Nicholas-Jean-Joachim de Cayrol.
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