Genre: Satire
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The MS includes a number of pre-1739 variants, along with a new reading of l.82 as ‘artistement orné’.
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1739
CMV: cmv37101
Repository: Present Whereabouts Unknown
Date: c.1764
CMV: cmv36537
The text was one of the works included in the 1764 edition of Contes de Guillaume Vadé.
Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Date: c.1764
CMV: cmv36536
This piece is a satire against Madame Du Barry and was published in Mémoires secrets du 2 janvier 1769 and the Correspondance littéraire secrète de Métra (6 January 1776). The attribution to Voltaire is contested by Bengesco.
Repository: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium
CMV: cmv34495
A manuscript copy of Voltaire’s Candide which derives from a printed edition as it features a copy of the title page, date, running titles, and signatures.
Repository: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, US
CMV: cmv35113
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.1736
CMV: cmv36797
Repository: The British Library
Date: 1781
CMV: cmv33098
Also included with the allegory is a sonnet based on verse by Voltaire, and a longer poem that satirically compares a poor student to a herring.
Repository: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscripts Library, Yale University, Connecticut, US
Date: 1789-1791
CMV: cmv33107