Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
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.