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Alzire

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Collection name:

Alzire

Collection type:

Text

Content:

  1. Record of variants between the 1736 edition of Alzire and the Beaumarchais edition of the same text, produced by Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes and written in the hand of his secretary Bauffres
  2. Old copy of ‘Epitre dédicatoire à Mme la marquise du Chastelet sur la tragédie d’Alzyre’, made from Desbordes’ edition of the Œuvres de Mr. de Voltaire
  3. Old copy of ‘Discours préliminaire sur cette pièce’ [Alzire], made from Desbordes’ edition of the Œuvres de Mr. de Voltaire
  4. Old copy of ‘Alzyre ou les Américains’, made from Desbordes’ edition of the Œuvres de Mr. de Voltaire
  5. Variants of Act IV and Act V of ‘Alzire’, written in the hand of Bigex with autograph additions by Voltaire, c.1734
  6. Copy of the role of Zamore from ‘Alzire’ produced by Henri Louis Lekain, 1750s
  7. Autograph outline of ‘Alzire’, c.1734
  8. Georgian translation of ‘Alzire’ made by Prince Alexander Chavchavadze, early c.19th

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