Copy of a letter from Louis XVI of France, to Louis Guillouet, comte d’Orvilliers mentioning Voltaire’s death, found in a bundle of ship’s papers
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HCA 32/492/19/1-6, ‘Bundle of ship’s papers’
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Copy of a letter from Louis XVI of France, to Louis Guillouet, comte d’Orvilliers mentioning Voltaire’s death, found in a bundle of ship’s papers
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Copy of a letter from Louis XVI of France, to Louis Guillouet, comte d’Orvilliers mentioning Voltaire’s death, found in a bundle of ship’s papers.
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Louis XVI of France praises the Comte d’Orvilliers for his victory over the English fleet. He then writes of the death of Voltaire before criticising the Archbishop of Paris.
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