Copy of a quotation from Voltaire’s ‘Stances Irregulières’, signed by Ivan Turgenev and dated 1869
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CMV37360
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Lion Heart Autographs, Item: 20863, ‘THE RUSSIAN NOVELIST, POET AND PLAYWRIGHT WRITES OUT AND SIGNS A QUOTATION FROM FRENCH PHILOSOPHER VOLTAIRE’
Title:
Copy of a quotation from Voltaire’s ‘Stances Irregulières’, signed by Ivan Turgenev and dated 1869
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Content
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Incipit Diplomatic:
S’occuper, c’est savoir jouir
L’oisiveté pèse et tourmente
Incipit Modernised:
S’occuper c’est savoir jouir
L’oisiveté pèse et tourmente
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Brief Summary:
Copy of a quotation from Voltaire’s Stances Irregulières, signed by Ivan Turgenev and dated 1869.
Detailed Summary:
Turgenev has copied out a quatrain from the larger work reading:
“S’occuper c’est savoir jouir
L’oisiveté pèse et tourmente;
L’âme est un feu, qu’il faut nourrir
Et qui s’éteint, s’il ne s’augmente”.
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Physical Description
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1 f.
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1
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The manuscript is folded and framed alongside a portrait of Turgenev. The manuscript has not been examined out of the frame.
Additional Comments:
The paper has been blind-embossed with Turgenev’s initials.
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History
Date:
1869
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Origin (transcript):
Bade
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Provenance:
Passed at a Lion Heart Autographs sale [Item: 20863] for $4500.
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