Autograph letter signed from Ernest Leslie to Antoine Honneste d’Adhémar de Monteil de Brunier, marquis d’Adhémar, written from Nancy and dated 19 August [1753]
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CMV37066
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VI. HA, Nl Adhemar, H. d’, Nr. 2 (A5), ‘Briefe von Leslie u. de Fabri sowie Tagebuchblätter’
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Autograph letter signed from Ernest Leslie to Antoine Honneste d’Adhémar de Monteil de Brunier, marquis d’Adhémar, written from Nancy and dated 19 August [1753]
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j’ai milles reproches et autant de remerciments à vous faire, mon cher marquis
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Autograph letter signed from Ernest Leslie to Antoine Honneste d’Adhémar de Monteil de Brunier, marquis d’Adhémar, written from Nancy and dated 19 August [1753].
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Leslie begins by thanking d’Adhemar’s brother for sending him a copy of Voltaire’s Siècle de Louis XIV. He then laments the fate of Voltaire who, after his star shone in Europe for so long, can now hardly find asylum there.
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