Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon letter to the Abbé de Launay, Paris
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 4700-0004
Scope and content
Letter in which Buffon criticizes Jean-Baptiste Le Corgne de Launay's plan to "attack the ideas of the Baron d'Holbach, author of Le système de la nature (1770), in which he attacked religion, with an accompanying manuscript note in French and a handwritten English translation.
Dates
- 1773 June 4.
Creator
Language of Material
In French, with English translation.
Biographical / Historical
French naturalist.
Extent
1 items. (1 item.)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
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2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)