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The poem is introduced with a note reading: ‘M. de Voltaire, malade en 1760 à Charlottenburg envoya ces vers par un page que la reine mère lui avait envoyé pour savoir de ses nouvelles’. This is false as Voltaire was not at Charlottenburg at that time.
The letter has been encoded, with the numerical code running beneath the text.
This MS consists of the first four pages only. The concluding pages were owned by Theodore Besterman.
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