Partially autograph draft of ‘Notes concernant le XVIe siècle en France’
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CMV37111
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5-240 (VIII, f.71v-72), ‘Notes ‘concernant le XVIe siècle en France’’
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Partially autograph draft of ‘Notes concernant le XVIe siècle en France’
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Content
People:
Incipit Diplomatic:
Il y avait à Paris 220 mil habitants.
Incipit Modernised:
Il y avait à Paris 220 mil habitants.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Partly
Brief Summary:
Partially autograph draft of ‘Notes concernant le XVIe siècle en France’, to be used for the Siècle de Louis XIV.
Detailed Summary:
The phrase ‘concernant le XVIe siècle en France’ is written in Voltaire’s hand.
Physical Description
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2 ff.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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History
Date:
pre-1751
Ownership:
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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Provenance:
This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970), p.38.
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