Contemporary copy of a letter from Voltaire to Claude Henri Feydeau, comte de Marville, dating to c.September 1742 [D2657]
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CMV33860
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Français 12935 (fol.9)
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Contemporary copy of a letter from Voltaire to Claude Henri Feydeau, comte de Marville, dating to c.September 1742 [D2657]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Vous scavés, monsieur, quel bruit on fait des gens peu filosofes, au sujet d’une tragedie un peu filosofique
Incipit Modernised:
Vous savez, monsieur, quel bruit ont fait des gens peu philosophes, au sujet d’une tragédie un peu philosophique
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Brief Summary:
Contemporary copy of a letter from Voltaire to Claude Henri Feydeau, comte de Marville, dating to c.September 1742.
Detailed Summary:
Voltaire writes that Marville must know what noise some philosophes have made about a philosophical tragedy, begging him to order Desfontaines not to pour his poison on this wound. He adds that François Augustin Paradis de Montcrif, who is currently in charge of publishing Rousseau, will remember that Voltaire is his friend and that he has been attached to the recipient for a long time. He begs Marville to help de Montcrif to remember this.
The manuscript implies that the letter was written in 1735, however Besterman suggests that the date should instead be 1742.
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1 f.
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Bound with other letters collected by Louis-Nicolas-Jean-Joachim de Cayrol in calf.
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There are some small ink blots alonf the top and right-hand edge of the page.
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F.9r is stamped with the library stamp of the Bibliothèque Impériale.
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Owned by Louis-Nicolas-Jean-Joachim de Cayrol (1775-1859).
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