Autograph letter from Anne Antoinette Françoise de Champbonin [née Paulin] to Laurent-François Prault, written from Chambonin and dated 1 November [D1645]
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CMV33854
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Français 12934 (fol.30-31)
Title:
Autograph letter from Anne Antoinette Françoise de Champbonin [née Paulin] to Laurent-François Prault, written from Chambonin and dated 1 November [D1645]
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MF 23568
Content
People:
Incipit Diplomatic:
vous etes un homme charmant monsieur, vous pouvez iuger du plaisir que votre lettre ma fait par linterest que ie prend aux choses que vous me mandé
Incipit Modernised:
Vous êtes un homme charmant, monsieur, vous pouvez juger du plaisir que votre lettre m’a fait par l’intérêt que je prends aux choses que vous me mandé
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
No
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Anne Antoinette Françoise de Champbonin [née Paulin] to Laurent-François Prault, written from Chambonin and dated 1 November.
Detailed Summary:
Anne Antoinette Françoise de Champbonin writes that she takes great interest in the things that Prault wrote about her. She asks that he sends her a copy of Mr Salmon’s approval, and notes that she found in Voltaire a great desire to please Prault and a strong sense of friendship. She contradicts any claims that Voltaire is not a friend to Prault, and discusses the books that Voltaire and Émilie du Châtelet had asked Tieriot to acquire. She ends by asking what Voltaire’s recent printed work is about.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
2 ff.
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1
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Binding:
The MS is bound with other letters in the collection in calf.
Additional Comments:
The lower right-hand corner of the MS has been torn away. A paper repair has been added to both torn folios, with the repair on f.31 being attached with four sealing wafers or blobs of wax.
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Decorations:
Undecorated
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Select words and phrases have been underlined throughout. The MS has been endorsed as ‘No. 17’.
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History
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Ownership:
Owned by Louis-Nicolas-Jean-Joachim de Cayrol (1775-1859).
Origin (transcript):
au chambonin
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OCV Reference:
vol.89, p.350–351
OCV Manuscript Reference:
vol.89, ‘MS1’, p.350–351
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