Printed 1745 edition of La Bataille de Fontenoy, accompanied by a printed billet addressed to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif on the reverse in Voltaire’s hand
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CMV34528
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FS 114 A 3, ‘Le poëme de Fontenoy’
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Printed 1745 edition of La Bataille de Fontenoy, accompanied by a printed billet addressed to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif on the reverse in Voltaire’s hand
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Printed 1745 edition of La Bataille de Fontenoy, accompanied by a printed billet addressed to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif on the reverse in Voltaire’s hand.
Detailed Summary:
The poem is taken from the 1745 Imprimerie Royale, Paris edition and is accompanied by one of five hundred printed billets published by Jacques Anisson-Duperron in 1745 as an accompaniment to the edition of the poem printed by the Imprimerie Royale, Louvre. The billet has been addressed to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif at ‘rue des Bons Enfans, chez monsieur d’Argenson’ in Voltaire’s hand.
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28 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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