Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, written from Les Délices and dated 29 June [1758] [D7772]
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CMV36839
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I. HA Rep. 96, Nr. 96 Zz, ‘Schriftwechsel mit Voltaire’
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, written from Les Délices and dated 29 June [1758] [D7772]
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Sire, Quoi qu’une lettre d’un vieux suisse ne doive guères être lüe d’un héros qui est dans la Moravie, que votre majesté permette pourtant à l’ancien attachement, au devoir, à la sensibilité, d’oser vous parler de la mort d’un frère.
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, written from Les Délices and dated 29 June [1758].
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[999] Also included with the letter is a half-length lithograph portrait of Voltaire by Gutsch Rupp. The portrait depicts Voltaire aged 20 and measures 237 x 144 mm.
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2 ff.
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Nachträge zu dem Briefwechsel Friedrichs des Grossen mit Maupertuis und Voltaire, hrsg. von Hans Droysen, Leipzig 1917 (Publikationen aus den K. Preußischen Staatsarchiven, 90), Nr. 417a, S. 57.
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