VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet dit) Lettre signée
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CMV33529
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Artcurial- Lot 563
Title:
VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet dit) Lettre signée
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Content
Incipit Diplomatic:
Je reçois dans le moment, mon cher Monsieur une lettre de Mr Turckeim par la quelle il me mande que le Sr Schœpflin a satisfait à sa dette.
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Brief Summary:
Letter signed from Voltaire to Sébastien Dupont, written from Aux Délices and dated 3 December 1755.
Detailed Summary:
Voltaire writes that he has just received a letter from m. Turkheim informing him that Schoepfling has satisfied his debt and so has nothing else to do but to beg Dupont to ‘put on the sheath’ and offer him his gratitude. He then notes that he and Marie-Louis Denis [née Mignot] [née Mignot] will be spending the winter at Monrion and assures Dupont that he would be tempted to visit Colmar if there were not Jesuits. Voltaire then asks Dupont to tell Madame de Klinglin that she played a dreadful trick on him as she was at Saint-Claude just six miles from Voltaire in Délices. He adds that if she had told him he would have gone to visit her but he will now, instead, be forced to make a trip to Colmar. He concludes by syaing that new operas are being prepared in Italy, new comedies are going to be given in Paris, and a lottery of thirty million is also to be held.
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2 ff.
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218 x 167 mm
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2
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Additional Comments:
The letter features additional horizontal and vertical fold lines, suggesting it had been letterlocked before sending. It features a red wax seal, and this seal has cause some damage to the paper. There is damage to the central fold line, and a selection of small holes in the same, suggesting that the letter had once formed part of a bound collection. There is water spotting across the paper. A hole in the bottom left-hand corner of f.1r runs right the way through both leaves.
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Undecorated
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There is a faint postmark above the address on f.2v. Notes have been added at the top of f.1r reading ‘Lettre XXIII’ and ‘No 2[?]5 3e. Xbre. 1755’. The last sentence is in the hand of Voltaire. The rest of the letter is in the hand of a secretary.
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Sold at auction by Artcurial on 18 November 2020 for €2730 (Lot 563).
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