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The text of this MS is close to the clandestine editions of the text produced in 1784. Marginal notes restore the text to the original version (CMV37555). The MS is part of a bound collection known to have been used by the Kehl editors.
Also included with the MS is a copy of ‘Le plaisier et l’Ennui, fable par m. Drobacq.’
The poem is titled ‘Vers de Mr Harouet, A Mr. Racine, sur son Poëme sur la grace’ and is dated 1722.
The copy forms part of a collection of letters and pieces concerning Voltaire and his family, in three volumes. This volume (the third) contains verse by, or attributed to, Voltaire. This copy of La Fête de Bélesbat contains several variants of the print edition.
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