Autograph draft of a letter from Voltaire to Jean François de La Harpe, written from Ferney and dated 19 April 1772 [D17702]
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CMV34253
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FS 315 C 37, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à Jean-François de La Harpe [document manuscrit]’
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Autograph draft of a letter from Voltaire to Jean François de La Harpe, written from Ferney and dated 19 April 1772 [D17702]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Monsieur, Vous prêtez de belles aîles à ce mercure qui n’était pas même galant du tems de Visé
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Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph draft of a letter from Voltaire to Jean François de La Harpe, written from Ferney and dated 19 April 1772.
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Physical Description
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1 f.
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255 x 192 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 two notes to the MS. The first reads ‘fragment de la lettre à M. de la harpe, du 19 avril 1772, imprimée dans le 3e tome des Mél. Litter’. The second is the number ‘176’.
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Date:
19 April 1772
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Owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), Georges Blumenthal (1858-1941), and Paul-Auguste-Cyrille de Launoit (1891-1981).
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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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