Autograph letter from Léopold Desmarest and Françoise Paule Huguet de Graffigny [née d’Issembourg Du Buisson d’Happoncourt] to François Antoine Devaux, written from Vandeuvre-sur-Barse and dated ‘ce mercredy des Cendres’ [11 February 1739]
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CMV35246
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MA 3936.2, ‘Autograph letter : Vendeuvre-sur-Barse, to François Antoine Devaux, [1739 Feb. 11].’
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Autograph letter from Léopold Desmarest and Françoise Paule Huguet de Graffigny [née d’Issembourg Du Buisson d’Happoncourt] to François Antoine Devaux, written from Vandeuvre-sur-Barse and dated ‘ce mercredy des Cendres’ [11 February 1739]
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Sont comparus ce soir, au lieu susdit, la dame de Graffigny et le sieur Desmarestz, roulans leur vie parmi les bouës et les cahos
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Autograph letter from Léopold Desmarest and Françoise Paule Huguet de Graffigny [née d’Issembourg Du Buisson d’Happoncourt] to François Antoine Devaux, written from Vandeuvre-sur-Barse and dated ‘ce mercredy des Cendres’ [11 February 1739].
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2 pp.
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Height: 247 mm
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History
Date:
ce mercredy des Cendres’ [11 February 1739]
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Owned by Sir Thomas Phillips.
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Vandœuvre
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Purchased by the Morgan Library in 1978 with the Fellows Fund.
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