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Letter : Cirey, France, to Marie-Louise Mignot, afterwards Denis, Paris, 1737 Dec. 7.
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Letter : Cirey, France, to Marie-Louise Mignot, afterwards Denis, Paris, 1737 Dec. 7.

Author: Voltaire; Marie-Louise Mignot Denis
Edition/Format:   Book : Letter : Manuscript   Archival Material : French
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Autograph manuscript of a letter by Voltaire to his niece, Marie-Louise Mignot, afterwards Denis. Dated at head of text: "A Cirey par Vassy en Champagne, 7 Xbre 1737." Signed (p. [4]): V. Begins: "Je reçois, ma chere enfant, votre lettre du 1er decembre. Je vais vous parler comme à ma nièce, à ma fille et à mon amie."
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Genre/Form: Correspondence
Named Person: Marie-Louise Mignot Denis; Louis François Toussaint du Ravet de Champbonin; Frederick, King of Prussia; Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Du Châtelet, marquise; Voltaire; Voltaire
Material Type: Manuscript
Document Type: Book, Archival Material
All Authors / Contributors: Voltaire; Marie-Louise Mignot Denis
OCLC Number: 678591559
Language Note: In French.
Notes: In ink; on half-sheet 20 x 32 cm., folded to 4 p., with creases showing further folds for mailing.
Not in T. Besterman's ed. of Voltaire's correspondence (Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 85-135); for letters relating to Mignot's circumstances after her father's death, to the proposed marriage, and to Mignot's visit to Cirey after her marriage to Denis, cf. Besterman D1379, D1396, D1406, D1408, D1411-1412, D1498.
Description: 1 item ([4] p.) ; 20 cm.

Abstract:

Autograph manuscript of a letter by Voltaire to his niece, Marie-Louise Mignot, afterwards Denis. Dated at head of text: "A Cirey par Vassy en Champagne, 7 Xbre 1737." Signed (p. [4]): V. Begins: "Je reçois, ma chere enfant, votre lettre du 1er decembre. Je vais vous parler comme à ma nièce, à ma fille et à mon amie."

Voltaire, then living at Cirey in the Champagne region with the marquise du Châtelet, proposes that his late sister's elder daughter, the recently orphaned Marie-Louise Mignot, should marry Louis François Toussaint du Ravet de Champbonin, the son of a neighbor; he offers a dowry and help with her establishment. He also denies rumors that he planned to move to Prussia at the invitation of the crown prince, the future King Frederick II, and comments on his relationship with the du Châtelets. Mignot rejected the proposed marriage and married Nicolas-Charles Denis the following February.

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