François Marie Arouet, known as VOLTAIRE (1694–1778). Autograph letter signed “Voltaire,” addressed to Jacques Gaultier, known as Gaultier de La Croze, tutor…

François Marie Arouet, known as VOLTAIRE (1694–1778). Autograph letter signed “Voltaire,” addressed to Jacques Gaultier, known as Gaultier de La Croze, tutor to Frederick II’s sisters, and later librarian and curator of the medal collection at the King’s Library. Gaultier had taken the name La Croze after his marriage to the niece of Mathurin Veyssière de La Croze (1661–1739), a French-born Orientalist scholar and Prussian librarian. He worked at the court in Berlin and compiled di

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