Contemporary copy of ‘Étrennes à Mme Du Châtelet, au nom de Mme de Boufflers’ in the hand of Françoise d’Issembourg du Buisson d’Happoncourt de Graffigny, 23 January 1743 [D517d]

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CMV37468

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GEN MSS 353, xiv.233-36, ‘Volume 14. Graffigny to Devaux, 1740-43’

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Contemporary copy of ‘Étrennes à Mme Du Châtelet, au nom de Mme de Boufflers’ in the hand of Françoise d’Issembourg du Buisson d’Happoncourt de Graffigny, 23 January 1743 [D517d]

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Une étrenne frivole à la docte Uranie!

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Brief Summary:

Contemporary copy of ‘Étrennes à Mme Du Châtelet, au nom de Mme de Boufflers’ in the hand of Françoise d’Issembourg du Buisson d’Happoncourt de Graffigny dated 23 January 1743.

Detailed Summary:

This copy of the poem is found in an autograph letter from Graffigny to Devaux dated 23 January [1743] where it is titled ‘Par Md. la duchesse de Bouflers a Md. du Chatelet’.

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4 pp.

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1

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23 January [1743]

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OCV Reference:

vol.28A, p.422-425

OCV Manuscript Reference:

vol.28A, p.423, ‘MS2’

Record created by:

Zoe Screti

Record created on:

28 July 2025