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Nineteenth-century copy of 'Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire'

The present whereabouts of this MS are unknown.

Repository: Present Whereabouts Unknown
Date: c.19th
CMV: cmv37563
Old copy of 'Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire'

The present whereabouts of this MS are unknown.

Repository: Present Whereabouts Unknown
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv37562
Copy of 'Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire'

The present whereabouts of this MS are unknown.

Repository: Present Whereabouts Unknown
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv37561
Autograph fragment of 'Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire'

The present whereabouts of this MS are unknown.

Repository: Present Whereabouts Unknown
Date: c.1760
CMV: cmv37560
Fair copy of 'Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire'
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1760
CMV: cmv37559
Copy of 'Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire'

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.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1784
CMV: cmv37558
Damaged fair copy of 'Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire'
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.1760
CMV: cmv37557
Contemporary copy of 'Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire'

A leaf containing notes about Madame de Boufflers, attributed to Saint-Lambert, has been inserted between p.76 and p.77.

Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.1760
CMV: cmv37556
Corrected copy of 'Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire', written in the hands of Wagnière and Voltaire, undated

The MS was composed, according to a notes in Voltaire’s hand on f.79v, f.81r, f.95v, and f.98r, between 6 November 1759 and 12 February 1760. The notes states that the MS was composed at Les Délices. F.1-80 are written primarily in Wagnière’s hand with corrections by Voltaire. F.81-99 are written primarily in Voltaire’s hand. The first half seems to be a clean copy of the text. The second half appears to be a working document.

Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 6 November 1759 - 12 February 1760
CMV: cmv37555
Copy of 'Mémoire sur la satire', with autograph corrections by Voltaire
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 1739
CMV: cmv37454

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