Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, dating to c.23 April 1746 [D3368]
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CMV34265
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FS 315 C 17, ‘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, dating to c.23 April 1746 [D3368]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Mon céleste silphe, mon ancien amy, je compte sur vos bontez.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, dating to c.23 April 1746.
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Physical Description
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1 f.
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227 x 184 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 reads ‘A M. de Montcrif’. The second reads ‘avril’. The third is the date ‘1746’. The fourth is the number ‘119’.
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History
Date:
[c.23 April 1746]
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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