Autograph draft of a letter from Voltaire to Jeanne Antoinette Le Normant d’Etioles, marquise de Pompadour [née Poisson], dated [May/June 1745] [D3132]
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CMV34275
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FS 316 C 19, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à Madame de Pompadour [texte manuscrit]’
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Autograph draft of a letter from Voltaire to Jeanne Antoinette Le Normant d’Etioles, marquise de Pompadour [née Poisson], dated [May/June 1745] [D3132]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Sincère et tendre Pompadour
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph draft of a letter from Voltaire to Jeanne Antoinette Le Normant d’Etioles, marquise de Pompadour [née Poisson], dated [May/June 1745].
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Physical Description
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Extent:
2 ff.
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250 x 172 mm
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2
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Bound with other Voltaire manuscripts in red morocco.
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Voltaire has added a note in his own hand reading ‘[deletion: lettre] extrait d’une lettre a made de Pompadour alors me detiole en 1745’. A second, unknown hand has added four notes to the MS. The first is the letter ‘E’. The second is the date ‘1747’. The third reads ‘La paix de Breslau, est 25 Xbre 1746’. The fourth reads ‘lettres et petits ver pr made de pompadour’. There are numerous corrections throughout in the form of crossings out and the addition of corrected and/or omitted text superscript.
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History
Date:
[May/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 17 April 1880 (Lot. 37) before entering the Morrison collection. Presumably passed for sale again at the Sotheby sale in London on 19 April or 10 December (Lot. 1768 or Lot. 2120).
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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