Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to père Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, abbé d’Aumâle, dated 20 July 1716 [D35]
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CMV34232
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FS 318 E 47, ‘Lettre de George Keate à Voltaire [texte manuscrit]’
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to père Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, abbé d’Aumâle, dated 20 July 1716 [D35]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Monsieur, Vous avez bau vous deffendre d’être mon maitre, vous le serez quoyque vous en disiez.
Incipit Modernised:
Monsieur, Vous avez bau vous deffendre d’être mon maitre, vous le serez quoyque vous en disiez.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to père Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, abbé d’Aumâle, dated 20 July 1716.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
2 ff.
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215 x 162 mm
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2
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Bound with other Voltaire manuscripts in red morocco.
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A second, unknown hand has added four notes to the MS. The first is the number ’34’ which has been crossed out. The second is the Roman numeral ‘I’. The third is the number ‘3’. The fourth is the phrase ‘Lettre de mr [deletion: arrouet] de Voltaire a mr labée de Chaulieu’.
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History
Date:
20 July 1716
Ownership:
Owned by the Comte de Clinchamp. Later owned by Félix Solar (1811-1870), Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), Georges Blumenthal (1858-1941), and Paul-Auguste-Cyrille de Launoit (1891-1981).
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Passed at the Solar sale in Paris scheduled for 26 February 1861 (Lot 3439). The sale actually took place on 13 April 1861. Bought by Laverdet, then passed at the Gilbert sale organised by Charavay in Paris on 7 December 1865 (Lot. 119).
Bibliography
Bibliography:
Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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