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The collection includes:
1) Satires, epigrams, sonnets, and other pieces in verse composed by an admirer of Voltaire.
2) Copy of Phillippiques against the Duke of Orleans by Lagrange-Chancel
3) Pieces from the beginning of the 17th century. I) Letter from Marie de Médicis on the trial of the Maréchal de Marillac. II) Some pieces against Mazarin such as “Le Hardy frondeur à Mr le Duc de Beaufort”, and “Sur la retraite des Mazarinettes au Val de Grâce”, or “Verses against Mr le Prince de Condé”.
4) Several pieces in a very free vein, such as “sonnet” and a “madrigal”
5) Several pieces on the Régiment de la Calotte, a facetious and satirical company created in 1702
6) Satires on the Court of Louis XIV and attacks on noble characters of the time of the Fronde. I) “le Roy à mesdames de la Vallière et de Montespan”. II) “Les chambres de la Cour et de la Ville”. III) “Logemens des Dames avec leurs proverbes”
7) “Idée de la personne, de la cour de la manière de vivre du roy de Prusse, 1753”
The recueil includes patents and letters-patent for a number of individuals including Voltaire, Jean Racine, Pasquier Quesnel, Jean Law de Lauriston, Guillaume-François Joly de Fleury, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, André-Hercule de Fleury, François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Gabrielle-Angélique de Bourbon, mademoiselle de Verneuil, Gabriel Daniel, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, and Charles-Antoine Coypel.
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