Partially autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Jacques de Rochefort d’Ally, chevalier de Rochefort d’Ally, written from Ferney and dated 6 December 1771 [D17499]
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CMV34284
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FS 316 C 30, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à Jacques d’Ally, chevalier de Rochefort, lieutenant des gardes du corps, à Paris [texte manuscrit]’
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Partially autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Jacques de Rochefort d’Ally, chevalier de Rochefort d’Ally, written from Ferney and dated 6 December 1771 [D17499]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Le vieux malade vous enverra, monsieur, le procès tout entier par une voye sure au lieu de courir le hazard de l’envoyer pièce à pièce.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Partly
Brief Summary:
Partially autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Jacques de Rochefort d’Ally, chevalier de Rochefort d’Ally, written from Ferney and dated 6 December 1771.
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Physical Description
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2 ff.
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197 x 159 mm
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1
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A postmark has been stamped on f.2v. The address has been corrected in the form of crossings out and the addition of corrected text to the left or the incorrect section.
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History
Date:
6 December 1771
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 9 December 1878 before entering the Morrison collection. Presumably passed again at the Sotheby sale of the collection in London between 1917 and 1919.
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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