Vers faits à Lyon, dans le temps que M. de Voltaire y était, et que son départ subit de cette ville empêcha de lui envoyer, par Guyot de Merville
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CMV33937
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5-240 (II, f.308), ‘Vers faits à Lyon, dans le temps que M. de Voltaire y était, et que son départ subit de cette ville empêcha de lui envoyer, par Guyot de Merville’
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Vers faits à Lyon, dans le temps que M. de Voltaire y était, et que son départ subit de cette ville empêcha de lui envoyer, par Guyot de Merville
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Est-ce un heureux hasard, est-ce un sort favorable?
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Est-ce un heureux hasard, est-ce un sort favorable?
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The manuscript is a lettre en vers in the hand of Paul Desforges-Maillard, featuring seven poems. The author, praising Voltaire’s formidable superiority of intellect and character, implicitly urges his addressee to help him secure employment. The letter cites and refers to De rerum natura by Lucretius and Œdipe by Corneille.
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1 f.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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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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