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The recueil was compiled between 1770 and July 1777. It is titled ‘Divers chosses detachee’ and contains c.20 texts by or relating to Voltaire. The recueil includes, amongst others, the following works by Voltaire:
- Balance égale
- Le Sermon du Rabin Akib
- L’aigle, le renard et le serpent
- Épitre à un homme (Turgot)
- Épitre à Horace
- Les Systèmes
- Épitre de M. de Voltaire au Pape Clement XIV au sujet de l’Ordonnance de sa sainteté qui deffend la castration
- Paralèlle de la mythologie et de la légende
- Épitre à Monsieur Marmontel
- Réponse de M. de Voltaire à l’épitre de M. de Pezay
- Le dimanche ou les filles de Minée
- La religion naturelle
The variant appears in marginal notes on p.85 of a 1742 edition of the Œuvres melées published by Bousquet. The variant concerns verse 91.
The poem appeared in a letter from Voltaire to Adrien Michel Hyancinthe Blin de Sainmore, written from Ferney and dated 15 December 1761.
The poem appeared in a letter from Voltaire to Adrien Michel Hyancinthe Blin de Sainmore, written from Ferney and dated 15 December 1761.
The poem appeared in a letter from Voltaire to Adrien Michel Hyancinthe Blin de Sainmore, written from Ferney and dated 15 December 1761.
The copy was produced by Blin de Sainmore. The letter consists of 16 lines of verse in four stanzas known as ‘Stances à Monsieur Blin de Sainmore’.