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Incomplete contemporary copy of 'Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne'

Lines 62-193 are absent from this copy due to missing pages. The poem has been signed ‘Fm’.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1756
CMV: cmv37541
Draft of the entry 'Conquête' for 'Questions sur l'Encyclopédie', written in the hand of Wagnière with a note added in the hand of Voltaire
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
CMV: cmv37534
Draft of the entry 'Ame' for 'Questions sur l'Encyclopédie', written in the hand of Villaume with autograph corrections by Voltaire
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 1753-1755
CMV: cmv37532
Copy of 'Résumé historique et critique', likely in the hand of Longchamp, with autograph additions by Voltaire

The MS is bound with three other texts by Voltaire which once formed part of the Boissy d’Anglas album. These texts are:

  • (a) a letter in verse to Algarotti and a letter to the comte d’Argental
  • (b) Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne
  • (c) Bababec et les fakirs / Lettre d’un Turc.
Repository: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Date: c.1750
CMV: cmv37519
Contemporary copy of 'Lettre à l'occasion de l'impôt du vingtième' in the hand of Longchamp, with autograph additions by Voltaire
Repository: Present Whereabouts Unknown
Date: [1749]
CMV: cmv37514
Autograph draft of a letter from Voltaire to Otto Christoph von Podewils, graf von Podewils, written from Paris and dated '9 au soir' [January 1744] [D2914]

The letter contains a copy of a short verse titled ‘À Mme la Duchesse de ***’. The lines of the poem have been added to the bottom of f.97v in two columns of four lines each.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: 9 au soir [January 1744]
CMV: cmv37474
Collection of poetry in Russian and French (c.19th)

The collection includes poems by:

  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Kondraty Ryleyev
  • Pyotyr Vyazemsky
  • Arkady Rodzianko
  • Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
  • Évariste de Parny
  • Pierre-Louis Ginguené
  • Voltaire
Repository: Private Collection
Date: Early c.19th
CMV: cmv37427
Draft of 'Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations', written in the hand of Longchamp with autograph corrections by Voltaire (Volume 2)
Repository: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv37342
Letter signed from Voltaire to Jacques Emanuel Roques de Maumont de La Rochefoucauld, written in the hand of Collini and dated 8 January 1753 [D5141]
Repository: Private Collection
Date: 8 January 1753
CMV: cmv37340
Letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 11 June 1761 [D9818]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 11 June 1761
CMV: cmv37317

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