Letter signed from Voltaire to François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, dated ‘ce mardy’ [?19 April 1746] [D3364]
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CMV34264
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FS 315 C 16, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif [document manuscrit]’
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Letter signed from Voltaire to François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, dated ‘ce mardy’ [?19 April 1746] [D3364]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Mon cher silphe dont je n’ose encor m’appeler le confrère, mais dont je seray toute ma vie L’amy le plus tendre, je vous cherche partout pour vous dire combien il me sera doux d’être lié avec vous par un titre nouvau
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Brief Summary:
Letter signed from Voltaire to François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, dated ‘ce mardy’ [?19 April 1746]
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2 ff.
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165 x 109 mm
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2
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Bound with other Voltaire manuscripts in red morocco.
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Voltaire has aded the date in his own hand. A second, unknown hand has added three notes. The first reads ‘a M. de Moncrif’. The second is the date ‘1746’. The third is the number ‘117’.
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[?19 April 1746]
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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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