Autograph letter from Jèze to Voltaire, dated 23 May 1777 [D20677].
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CMV33926
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5-240 (II, f.279-283), ‘Lettre de Jèze, censeur à Toulouse, à Voltaire, 23 mai 1777’
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Autograph letter from Jèze to Voltaire, dated 23 May 1777 [D20677].
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Monsieur, M. Mailhe, Jeunne homme dont Le premier essai de poésie vient d’être couronné pâr
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Monsieur, M. Mailhe, Jeune homme dont Le premier essai de poésie vient d’être couronné par
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Jèze to Voltaire, dated 23 May 1777.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is an autograph letter in Jèze’s hand, praising Jean Baptiste Mailhe, an active revolutionary whose poetry was recognized by L’accadémie des Jeux floraux. The letter is accompanied by the following dedication (holograph, ii.280) ‘Le parnasse du trois de May / Vient de couronner mon essay. /Je m’empresse d’en faire homage / A l’Apollon du siècle, au chantre universel. /Tel qu’un timide aiglon, je crains encor L’orage, / Mais si j’obtenois ton suffrage / J’oserois planer dans le ciel.’ Besterman maintains that the foliation is 279.
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2 ff.
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1
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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23 May 1777
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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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