Autograph letter from Du Gard d’Echichens to Voltaire, written from Eschichens and dated 12 February 1769 [D15472].
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CMV33953
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5-240 (III, f.242-243), ‘Lettre de M. d’Eschischens à Voltaire, du 12 février 1769’
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Autograph letter from Du Gard d’Echichens to Voltaire, written from Eschichens and dated 12 February 1769 [D15472].
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Je le tiens mon cher monsieur, ce précieux gage de votre amitié, ce vol pieux, que vous avés bien voulu faire en ma faveur
Incipit Modernised:
Je le tiens mon cher monsieur, ce précieux gage de votre amitié, ce vol pieux, que vous avés bien voulus faire en ma faveur
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Du Gard d’Echichens to Voltaire, written from Eschichens and dated 12 February 1769.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is an autograph letter, written in the hand of Du Gard d’Echichens, expressing gratitude to an unidentified recipient for a gift. The letter makes references to Voltaire, both indirectly and directly, portraying him as an unparalleled author and expressing a desire to create a monument titled ‘Triomphes de Voltaire’. The letter also mentions the unknown correspondent’s stay at Ferney. NB: Besterman maintains that ‘This letter is clearly not to Voltaire, as stated by ED1, but if it is correctly dated I cannot identify the addressee with any certainty. At so remote a spot as Echichens, the writer may not have heard of the sad events of the previous year, and if so the letter was probably to La Harpe.’
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2 ff.
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1
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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12 February 1769
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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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