Autograph letter from Françoise d’Issembourg d’Happoncourt, mme de Graffigny to François Antoine Devaux, written from Cirey and dated ‘Ce mardi [9 December 1738], à onze heures du soir’ [D1681]
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MA 3936.6, ‘Autograph letter : [Cirey, near Joinville], to François Antoine Devaux, [1738 Dec. 9-11].’
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Autograph letter from Françoise d’Issembourg d’Happoncourt, mme de Graffigny to François Antoine Devaux, written from Cirey and dated ‘Ce mardi [9 December 1738], à onze heures du soir’ [D1681]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Puisque je n’ai pas grand’chose à te conter aujourd’hui, mon petit ami, il me prend envie de te copier quelque chose de l’histoire de Louis XIV, comme, par exemple, le beau portrait de Catinat, qui, je crois, te plaira.
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Françoise d’Issembourg d’Happoncourt, mme de Graffigny to François Antoine Devaux, written from Cirey and dated ‘Ce mardi [9 December 1738], à onze heures du soir’.
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5 pp.
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Height: 227 mm
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Undecorated
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History
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[9 December 1738]
Ownership:
Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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[Cirey]
Provenance:
Purchased by the Morgan Library in 1978 with the Fellows Fund.
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