Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, dated 16 June [1745] ‘au soir’ [D3148]
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CMV34262
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FS 315 A 12, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif [document manuscrit]’
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, dated 16 June [1745] ‘au soir’ [D3148]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Je n’avois mon cher silphe suplié madame de Luines de présenter ma rapsodie à la reine.
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, dated 16 June [1745] ‘au soir’.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
2 ff.
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192 x 134 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 had has added three notes to the MS. The first is the date ‘1745’. The second reads ‘à m. de Moncrif’. The third is the number ’90’.
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History
Date:
16 June [1745]
Ownership:
Owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), Georges Blumenthal (1858-1941), and Paul-Auguste-Cyrille de Launoit (1891-1981).
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Passed at the Charavay sale in Paris on 12 July 1879 (Lot. 162), the Charavay sale in Paris in March 1887 (Lot. 325), and the Charavay sale in Paris on 27 February 1889 (Lot. 172).
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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