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Title
La Vallière, letter, 1756 Mar. 1, to Voltaire
Creator
La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de, 1708-1780
Contributor
Voltaire, 1694-1778, recipient
Date Created and/or Issued
1756-03-01
Publication Information
Garnier Frères, Librairies-Éditeurs
Paris, France
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Voltaire Correspondence, 1742-1777
Rights Information
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Description
Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc (Duc de La Vallière), letter, Versailles, France, 1756 Mar. 1, to François Marie Arouet Voltaire. "J'ai reçu, mon cher Voltaire, le sermon que vous m'avez envoyé, et malgré la saine philosophie qui y règne, il m'a inspiré encore plus de respect pour son auteur que pour sal morale..." -- first line.
Type
text
Format
2 leaves (3 p.)
image/tiff
application/pdf
letters (correspondence)
Identifier
vol-coll874-16-01
vol-coll874-16-02
vol-coll874-16-01~1...~4
http://doi.org/10.25549/voltaire-c47-133
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/vol-coll874-16-01~1.jpg
Language
French
Place
48.8038949,2.101669
46.2073129,6.1331316
France
Swiss Confederacy
Versailles
Geneva
Île-de-France
Source
Rare fF840 V935 d [Identifying number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Box 1
Finding aid: http://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/874 ; Published in Œuvres complètes de Voltaire. Paris, France: Garnier Frères, Librairies-Éditeurs, 1880. vol. 39 (Correspondance vol. 7), p. 1-2 (letter 3129). Published in Electronic Enlightenment (letter D6760). http://www.e-enlightenment.com. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:doc/voltfrVF1010090a1c. Last viewed: 2016-01-27
Folder 16
Voltaire Correspondence, 1742-1777
Provenance
purchased; transferred from the Hoose Library of Philosophy

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