Autograph letter signed from L’Huillier Marigny to Voltaire, written from Paris and dated 30 September 1763 [D11438].
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CMV33881
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5-240 (I, f.462), ‘Lettre de L’Huillier Marigny, procureur du Roi à Saint-Domingue, adresée à Voltaire de Paris, 30 septembre 1763’
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Autograph letter signed from L’Huillier Marigny to Voltaire, written from Paris and dated 30 September 1763 [D11438].
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Si je n’avais, Monsieur, un droit acquis sur vos bontés par 25 ans d’attachement et de reconnaissance les plus épurés
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Si je n’avais, Monsieur, un droit acquis sur vos bontés par 25 ans d’attachement et de reconnaissance les plus épurés
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from L’Huillier Marigny to Voltaire, written from Paris and dated 30 September 1763.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is signed original in Marie François L’Huillier d’Orville de Marigny’s hand. According to T. D. N. Besterman, the folios are numbered 402-403. In the letter, the author politely expresses his discontent and upset over Voltaire’s lack of communication, opting to blame the inefficient postal service of the day rather than Voltaire’s intentional disinterest. Throughout the letter, the correspondent recounts his travels, the times of ill health, and the war of 1744, incessantly praising the virtues of friendship. Marigny ends the letter expressing his gratitude for the portrait gifted to him by Voltaire in 1751, bearing an inscription ‘Amico De Marigny, amicus of Voltaire’. Additionally, the author adds his ode to the portrait – the 8-line verse, with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD.
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1 f.
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1
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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30 September 1763
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Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)
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