Le droit du Seigneur
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CMV33872
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5-240 (I, f.156-200), ‘Le droit du Seigneur’
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Le droit du Seigneur
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Ecoutez-moi, monsieur le magister
Incipit Modernised:
Ecoutez-moi, monsieur le magister
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Partly
Brief Summary:
This manuscript is a contemporary copy of Voltaire’s comedy Le droit du Seigneur in Wagnière’s hand. The manuscript is probably one of the ‘copies’ referred to on the title page of MS3.
Detailed Summary:
Le droit du Seigneur is a comedy written with remarkable speed – in a fortnight, if Voltaire is to be believed (D8933, D8959). Its style and themes echo those of his earlier sentimental comedies, such as Nanine (1749), with which it also shares the decasyllabic verse form.
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45 ff.
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2
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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The MS has corrections in Voltaire’s hand. It is endorsed by Wagnière on the title page ‘Bon Original’.
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Early 1760
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Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)
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