Secretarial copy of Frederick II of Prussia’s preface to La Henriade, written in the hand of Wagnière excpet for the title which is in Voltaire’s hand
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CMV34540
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MA Unassigned, ‘Préface de la henriade par le Roy de Prusse : autograph manuscript, 1756.’
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Secretarial copy of Frederick II of Prussia’s preface to La Henriade, written in the hand of Wagnière excpet for the title which is in Voltaire’s hand
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Brief Summary:
Secretarial copy of Frederick II of Prussia’s preface to La Henriade, written in the hand of Wagnière excpet for the title which is in Voltaire’s hand.
Detailed Summary:
The preface is from the 1756 edition of Voltaire’s La Henriade.
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15 pp.
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1756
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The MS was removed from a copy of La Henriade in 1927. It was recatalogued in 1958.
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