Contemporary copy of ‘Panégyrique de Saint Louis’, possibly written in the hand of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c.1749

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Contemporary copy of ‘Panégyrique de Saint Louis’, possibly written in the hand of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c.1749

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Contemporary copy of ‘Panégyrique de Saint Louis’, possibly written in the hand of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c.1749.

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History

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c.1749

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Owned by Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine, Madame Dupin (1706-1799).

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The MS came into the possession of Mme Dupin and passed by inheritance to the comtesse de Montgermont. It was then sold at the Cornau sale of her papers in Paris on 17 May 1951 (Lot. 51) and later at the Charavay sale in Paris on 22 November 1985.

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OCV Reference:

vol.31B, p.471-519

OCV Manuscript Reference:

vol.31B, p.489, ‘MS1-2’

Record created by:

Zoe Screti

Record created on:

8 September 2025