Voltaire was incarcerated in the Bastille on 17 April 1726 and released on the 30th. These certificates are accompanied by and inventory of the goods found on the prisoner and returned on his release. Voltaire’s signature appears on the exit order, along with the acquittal of the jailer for the restitution and signature of his form.

The certificate states that Voltaire follows and observes social and religious laws at the Château de Ferney.

A collection of various documents, including: (I) Set of assignats comprising 16 assignats of five pounds from 1793 (Brumaire year II), 11 assignats of ten pounds from 1792, 3 assignats of fifteen sols from 1793, 2 assignats of 10 sous from the fourth year of freedom, 4 assignats of fifty sols, and 1 assignat of twenty-five sols.
(II) Set of autograph documents from Besins & Cie. including a letter from Joseph B. to Napoleon I (Madrid, 1808), a letter from Verlaine, a letter from Malherbe, a codicil from Napoleon, a testament from Racine, a note from Pierre Corneille, a letter from Voltaire to the Count of Laurencin, a letter of resignation from Cardinal de Rohan to Louis XVI, lots from the trial of the necklace (1786), last letter from Louis XVI to the National Convention, a letter from Beaumarchais to the Minister of the Interior, a letter from François I to the Empress, wife of Charles V on the subject of the interview at Aigues-mortes, a letter from Marie-Stuart to Philip II, a letter patent from Charles VII ennobling Jean d’Arc and his family (1429), a farewell letter from Charlotte Corday to her father after his arrest for the assassination of Marat, and some minutes.
(III) A set of four drypoint engravings of Versailles by Laboratoire Galbrun, ‘Bassin de Cérès’, ‘Le Tapis vert’, ‘Temple de l’Ampur'[?] and ‘Maison de la Reine’.
(IV) Les Laboratoires Carlier, ‘La cabinet de Perles’ by Thomas Lawrence, engravings, 1837.
(V) ‘Woman in French painting, 17th, 18th and 19th century’, Les Éditions Nationales, Paris.
(VI) A handwritten letter in English located in Quebec and dated 28 July 1754.
(VII) Certificate ‘To the glory of the great architect of the universe’ dated 23rd day of the 11th month of the year of true light 5826 (1817).

A certificate of life for Jean-Louis Wagnière, ‘former secretary of Mr. de Voltaire, resident of SMI of Russia residing in Ferney’. This certificate is signed and apostilled by Wagnière and is dated to 2 January 1782.

The certificate states that Ulric Baron de Thun, Ministre Plénipotentiaire de Wurttemberg can confirm that of 5 January 1779, Marie Louise Mignot, the widow of M. N. Charles Denis, is alive.

A life certificate issued to Voltaire, this time written in Wagnière’s hand. It is not signed by Voltaire and instead features the signature of Jean de Montpeyroux, resident for the King in Geneva. This certificate dates to 7 August 1760.

Document signed ‘fm arouet de Voltaire’ and also signed by Marc Duval and four others, certifying that Voltaire is alive. The certificate dates to 7 January 1767.