Autograph letter signed from Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet to Voltaire, written from Paris and dated 14 April 1772 [D17695]
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CMV34235
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FS 318 E 50, ‘Lettre de George Keate à Voltaire [texte manuscrit]’
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Autograph letter signed from Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet to Voltaire, written from Paris and dated 14 April 1772 [D17695]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Pourquoi, mon illustre maître, ne m’avez-vous pas envoié le neuvième volume de l’enciclopédie?
Incipit Modernised:
Pourquoi, mon illustre maître, ne m’avez-vous pas envoié le neuvième volume de l’enciclopédie?
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
No
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet to Voltaire, written from Paris and dated 14 April 1772.
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Physical Description
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2 ff.
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200 x 157 mm
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2
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An unknown hand has added the date ‘1772’ to the MS. A postmark has been stamped on f.2v.
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History
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14 April 1772
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Provenance:
Passed at the Charavay sale in Paris on 11 April 1876 (Lot. 112) and another in Paris on 14 July 1879 (Lot. 40).
Bibliography
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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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