Autograph letter signed from Louis-Alexandre-Jacques Mitouart to the ministre de l’intérieur, written from Paris and dated ’24 Ventôse an 7′, i.e. 14 March 1799
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CMV34530
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FS 317 C 30, ‘Lettre de Louis-Alexandre-Jacques Mitouart au ministre de l’intérieur [i.e. Nicolas François de Neufchâteau] [texte manuscrit]’
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Autograph letter signed from Louis-Alexandre-Jacques Mitouart to the ministre de l’intérieur, written from Paris and dated ’24 Ventôse an 7′, i.e. 14 March 1799
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Louis-Alexandre-Jacques Mitouart to the ministre de l’intérieur, written from Paris and dated ’24 Ventôse an 7′, i.e. 14 March 1799.
Detailed Summary:
The letter is written from the son of the apothecary in charge of Voltaire’s embalming. He offers the brain of Voltaire, conserved in the spirit of wine, to the Republic.
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2 ff.
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211 x 167 mm
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Bound with other letters in full red morocco, framed with three gilded fillets and a decorated spine. The edges are gilded.
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14 March 1799
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Paul Dorveaux, “Le cervelet de Voltaire et les Mitouart”, Revue d’histoire de la Pharmacie, 1925, 45, p.1-8; Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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