Genre: Satire
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The MS forms part of a recueil of works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Repository: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
Date: post-1763
CMV: cmv37707
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: post-1763
CMV: cmv37706
The text is part of a recueil compiled by Charles-Marie Fevret de Fontette.
Repository: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
Date: post-1763
CMV: cmv37705
The MS is divided into the following sections:
- ‘Diatribe du Docteur Akakia, médecin du Pape: décret de l’Inquisition; et rapport des professeurs de Rome au sujet d’un prétendu Président. Rome 1753.’
- ‘Berlin du 16eme Decembre 1752’
- ‘Decret de l’Inquisition de Rome’
- ‘Augement des Professeurs du Collége de la Sapience’
- ‘Mémoire’, written in the hand of Collini with an autograph correction by Voltaire
- ‘Reponse de Mr de Voltaire à Mr de Maupertuis’
- ‘Avertisement qui a paru dans les gazettes litteraires et ordinaires de Leipzig’
Repository: Gelders Archief
Date: 1752-1753
CMV: cmv37531
The variants found in this MS copy do not match other copies of the same work.
Repository: Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv37448
Repository: Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany
Date: post-1755
CMV: cmv37439
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