Printed 1745 edition of La Bataille de Fontenoy, corrected by Voltaire and accompanied by an autograph billet from Voltaire to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif
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CMV34526
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FS 114 A 4, ‘La bataille de Fontenoy, poëme. Quatrième édition, augmentée de plusieurs vers, & de beaucoup de notes instructives’
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Printed 1745 edition of La Bataille de Fontenoy, corrected by Voltaire and accompanied by an autograph billet from Voltaire to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif
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Vous verrez, mon cher ami, par ce chiffon, pourquoi je ne vous ai pas envoyé ma Bataille.
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Printed 1745 edition of La Bataille de Fontenoy, corrected by Voltaire and accompanied by an autograph billet from Voltaire to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif.
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The poem has been heavily corrected by Voltaire. In his billet to Moncrif, Voltaire states that he will see why Voltaire did not send him the poem, adding that of the four published editions none satisfy him. He concludes by asking Moncrif to tell the queen that he is not easily satisfied when he works for her husband and son, and entreats Moncrif to love him.
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12 pp.
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1745
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Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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