Les frères ennemis
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CMV33876
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5-240 (I, f.313-331), ‘Les frères ennemis’
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Les frères ennemis
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Content
Incipit Diplomatic:
Seigneur, en arrivant dans ce séjour d’alarmes
Incipit Modernised:
Seigneur, en arrivant dans ce séjour d’alarmes
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
No
Brief Summary:
This copy was executed by the same copyist as MS2 and A34 and has been corrected by the same unknown revisor. The handwriting of the copyist is somewhat archaic, and the punctuation is extremely sparse. This one manuscript may be identified with a group of three or four plays under the collective title of Suppléments aux œuvres de théâtre de M. de Voltaire.
Detailed Summary:
Le Duc d’Alençon ou les Frères ennemis is a tragedy in three acts by Voltaire. The text is a new version of Voltaire’s tragedy Adélaïde du Guèsclin (1734), written in Berlin, and premiered in 1751 for Frederick II. According to T. D. N. Besterman, the folios are numbered 312-331.
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Physical Description
Material(s):
Extent:
19 ff.
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Dimensions:
236 x 198 mm
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Binding:
The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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The MS carries corrections by the unknown revisor.
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History
Date:
[1751]
Ownership:
After Voltaire’s death, the MS passed into the ownership of Catherine II and remained in the imperial and then national collection thereafter.
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Provenance:
This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)
OCV Reference:
10, Les frères ennemis, p.307-48
OCV Manuscript Reference:
10, ‘MS1’, p.66-67
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