Contemporary copy of verse attributed to Claude Joseph Dorat, chevalier Dorat, dating to c.1768
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CMV35589
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Lambert-David.VDivers.1Papiers.25.Billet à nommer
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Contemporary copy of verse attributed to Claude Joseph Dorat, chevalier Dorat, dating to c.1768
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Incipit Diplomatic:
bon dieu! que cet auteur est jeune à soixante ans
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Brief Summary:
Contemporary copy of verse attributed to Claude Joseph Dorat, chevalier Dorat, dating to c.1768.
Detailed Summary:
The verse is against Voltaire and discusses his age, anger, and fears. The author, said to be Dorat, concludes that they pity Voltaire. The verse was quoted in a letter from Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise Du Deffand [née de Vichy] to Horace Walpole dated 15 December 1768.
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1 ff.
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184 x 147 mm
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Unbound
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Undecorated
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A second, eighteenth-century hand has added a note to the upper right-hand corner of f.1r reading: ‘donné par M. G.’. A third, later hand has added a pencil not to the op of the same reading: ‘recueil 3. 192’. There is a minor correction to the end of l.5 of f.1r in the form of a crossing out and the addition of corrected text superscript.
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c.1768
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