Autograph letter signed from Claude de Loynes d’Autroche to Voltaire, written from Orléans and dated 7 November 1776 [D20391].
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CMV33885
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5-240 (II, f.28-30), ‘Epître à Voltaire, par Dautroche, de la société d’agriculture d’Orléans, 7 novembre 1775, Sur la destruction des impôts indirects et des financiers dans le pays de Gex’
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Autograph letter signed from Claude de Loynes d’Autroche to Voltaire, written from Orléans and dated 7 November 1776 [D20391].
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Epitre sur la destruction des impôts indirects et des financiers dans le païs / De Gex / Il est donc vrai, divin Voltaire
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Épître sur la destruction des impôts indirects et des financiers dans le pays / De Gex / Il est donc vrai, divin Voltaire
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Claude de Loynes d’Autroche to Voltaire, written from Orléans and dated 7 November 1776.
Detailed Summary:
This manuscript is an autograph letter in Claude de Loynes d’Autroche’s hand. The MS1 (ii.31–33) is accompanied by the writer’s fable ‘Le Berger, le chien et les loups’. The MS features the 8-stanza epistle ‘De Gex’ that expresses a sullen discontent over the hurdles of indirect taxation afflicting the country. The body of the letter reflects on the recent unsavoury political events unfolding in France, speculatively having something to do with Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Comte de Maurepas.
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3 ff.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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7 November 1776
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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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