Essai sur l’histoire universelle [Essai sur les mœurs]

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CMV37724

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Réserve A, cote 1D 110

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Essai sur l’histoire universelle [Essai sur les mœurs]

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Brief Summary:

A copy of ‘volume 3’ of Voltaire’s Essai sur l’histoire universelle (which was eventually to become the Essai sur les mœurs), heavily modified with dozens of manuscript amendments, given to Jacques Abram Élie Daniel Clavel de Brenles in early 1754. Some of the corrections are written on the page, others are added on bits of paper stuck to the printed pages with wafer seals, and others still are inserted as whole new gatherings running to several pages.

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3

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The volume is bound in paper covers and housed in a box made to resemble a calf binding.

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  • Voltaire, Essai sur les mœurs, ed. René Pomeau, Paris, Garnier, 1963.
  • Gillian Pink, ‘ “Ce prince bizarre” : un volume offert à Clavel de Brenles et une variante de l’Essai sur les mœurs identifiée’, in Revue Voltaire 25 (2025), p.201-211.

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OCV Manuscript Reference:

OCV, vol.21, p.288 (54LDA*)

Record created by:

Claire Douard

Record created on:

27 July 2026