Epître de Dorat à Diderot, en lui envoyant une contribution pour la statue de M. de Voltaire
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CMV33894
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5-240 (II, f.67-69), ‘Epître de Dorat à Diderot, en lui envoyant une contribution pour la statue de M. de Voltaire’
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Epître de Dorat à Diderot, en lui envoyant une contribution pour la statue de M. de Voltaire
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Sage sans vain orgueil, philosophe indulgent
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Sage sans vain orgueil, philosophe indulgent
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Brief Summary:
The manuscript is a copy of an epistle written by Dorat to Denis Diderot as a contribution to the statue of M. de Voltaire and featured in D16659.
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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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The manuscript is an addition to an autograph letter from Claude Joseph Dorat (chevalier Dorat Cambry), French author and playwright, to Voltaire, dated Thursday, 20 September 1770.
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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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This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
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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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