Keyword: Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset

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The copy runs to 27 lines and is bound with several other pieces including: 1) an engraved frontispiece taken from Essai sur la comedie moderne par Monsieur M.L.J.D.B. (Paris, 1752); 2) Lettre de M. Gresset l’un des quarante de l’Académie françoise a M. *** sur la comédie (1759); 3) Lettre a Mlle. CL****, actrice de la Comédie françoise (undated); 4) Conversation de Mr. l’Intendant des menus, avec Mr. l’Abbé *** (Undated); 5) Plaidoyer pour Genest Ramponeau par M. V*** (Geneva, 1760); 6) a manuscript in the hand of Jamet titled “Retranchements qui ont été faits”; 7) a manuscript in the hand of Guillaume Molé titled “Traité de la comédie, ses périls et son incompatibilité avec l’esprit et la vie chrestienne”.

Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections, Clark Library Rare Book Stacks
CMV: cmv35340

The poem is an epigram against Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset by Alexis Piron. The poem was sent to Voltaire in a letter from Nicolas-Claude Thieriot, dated 1 July 1759 [D8382].

Repository: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, US
CMV: cmv34564

Frederick asks Thiériot to send him the various pieces by Bernard, Gresset, and Voltaire that he mentioned in a previous letter. 

Repository: Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Prussian Privy State Archives
Date: 19 June 1739
CMV: cmv36848