Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Guillaume-Clude de Laleu, written from Lyon and dated 6 December 1754 [D6014]
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CMV35870
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MS 121.21
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Guillaume-Clude de Laleu, written from Lyon and dated 6 December 1754 [D6014]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
je prie Monsieur de la leu de payer pour mon compte a L’ordre de mrs tronchin et camp, de lyon la somme de cinquante mille livres
Incipit Modernised:
Je prie Monsieur de la Leu de payer pour mon compte à L’ordre de mrs Tronchin et Camp, de Lyon la somme de cinquante mille livres
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Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Guillaume-Clude de Laleu, written from Lyon and dated 6 December 1754.
Detailed Summary:
Voltaire asks de Laleu to pay his account to the order of Messieurs Tronchin and Camp as soon as he can. The sum is fifty thousand lt, and Voltaire adds that he will be obliged to Laleu if he can do this for him. The letter has been written on the back of the document Voltaire received from Tronchin and Camp asking for payment. The document reads: ‘Nous vous prions Monsieur de payer La Somme de Cinquante Mille Livres mentionnée en L’autre part à L’ordre de messieurs Jean Cottin L’ainé & fils de Paris valeur en Compte avec Les dits sieurs. à Lyon le 9e xbre 1754. [signed:] J. R. Tronchin & Camp. Pour acquit Jean Cottin L’ainé’.’
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Physical Description
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Extent:
1 f.
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112 x 180 mm
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1
Watermark:
The paper is watermarked, but this mark is indistinguishable due to the paper being cut.
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Unbound
Additional Comments:
There is a small hole in the lower left-hand corner and a pin hole in the upper left-hand corner of f.1r. There are remnants of glue along the edges of the MS.
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Undecorated
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History
Date:
6 December 1754
Ownership:
Owned successively by Raoul Bonnet (1867-1956), Léon Muller, and Theodore Besterman (1904-1976).
Origin (transcript):
Lyon
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Provenance:
Passed at the Monmerqué sale in Paris on 11 March 1861 (Lot. 3350), the Techener sale in Paris on 4 April 1865 (Lot. 1962), the Dubrunfaut sale in Paris on 22 December 1884 (Lot 42), the Charavay sale in Paris on 7 March 1888 (Lot.163), and the Charavay sale in Paris on 11 April 1891 (Lot. 145) where is was purchased by Etienne Charavay. The MS then entered the collections of Raoul Bonnet and Léon Muller, before passing again at the Castaing sale in Paris on 13 March 1969 (Lot.279).
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