Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon, dated 3 August [1755] [D19588]
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CMV34229
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FS 318 E 44, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon [texte manuscrit]’
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon, dated 3 August [1755] [D19588]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Mon très aimable ami, votre ouvrage contre l’esprit de parti est encor une fois un très bon ouvrage, mais il n’est pas étonnant que les malades de la rage se fâchent contre leur médecin.
Incipit Modernised:
Mon très aimable ami, votre ouvrage contre l’esprit de parti est encor une fois un très bon ouvrage, mais il n’est pas étonnant que les malades de la rage se fâchent contre leur médecin.
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon, dated 3 August [1755].
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2 ff.
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195 x 158mm
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2
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An unknown hand has added three notes to the MS. The first reads ‘à m. de Chabanon’. The second is the date ‘1775’. The third is the number ’29’. A postmark has been stamped on f.2v.
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3 August [1775]
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Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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