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Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 14 August 1761
CMV: cmv37415
Repository: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv37342
Repository: Private Collection
Date: 8 January 1753
CMV: cmv37340
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 11 June 1761
CMV: cmv37317
The copy was made for Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov and was sent to him with D8868.
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 14 April 1760
CMV: cmv37298
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 29 October 1754
CMV: cmv37264
The verse seems to have been composed during Voltaire’s stay at Cirey, likely in September/October 1734.
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1740
CMV: cmv37097
The manuscript offers variants of Act IV, l.166a-182 and Act V, l.53-68. It is the only known original manuscript of Alzire to have survived. The variant for Act V is written in the left-hand margin of f.1r in Voltaire’s hand.
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1734
CMV: cmv37091
A second hand has added a list of characters to the MS.
Repository: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
Date: 1751
CMV: cmv36668
It is likely that this was a prompt copy used at the Comédie-Française. The play was first performance at the Comédie-Française at the ‘Jeu de Paume de l’Etoile’ on Monday 18 January 1734.
Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: 1734
CMV: cmv36667