Pour Mad*** (du Châtelet)
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CMV33923
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5-240 (II, f.204-205), ‘Pour Mad*** (du Châtelet)’
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Pour Mad*** (du Châtelet)
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Content
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Qu’un autre vous enseigne, ô ma chère Uranie
Incipit Modernised:
Qu’un autre vous enseigne, ô ma chère Uranie
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Brief Summary:
The MS is a poem by Claude Adrien Helvétius.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is a poem featuring a dichotomy between knowledge and feelings.
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Physical Description
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2 ff.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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History
Date:
1734
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)
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