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French commonplace book, c.1810

The MS was copied out by multiple people (possibly a group of students) before being bound as a single volume. Included in the commonplace book are excerpts from:

  • C.A. Demoustier’s Cours de Morale (1804)
  • Esprit Fleicher’s Oraison funèbre de Monsieur de Turenne (1676)
  • Chateaubriand’s Martyrs (1809)
  • The Gazette de France (9 April 1808)
  • Voltaire
  • Jean-Baptiste Massillon
  • Fréderic César de La Harpe
  • Marie Jeanne Riccoboni
  • Jacques Necker
  • François de Neufchâteau
  • Jean-François Marmontel
  • Marquis de Bonnay
  • The letters of Catherine the Great
  • Hayley’s Recette de faire une Tragédie moderne (undated).
Repository: Private Collection
Date: c.1810
CMV: cmv37684
Letter signed from Voltaire to Antoine-Jean Gabriel Le Bault, written from Ferney and dated 10 April 1765 [D12537]
Repository: Private Collection
Date: 10 April 1765
CMV: cmv37683
Letter signed from Voltaire to Jean-François de La Harpe, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 15 August 1775 [D19607]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 15 August 1775
CMV: cmv37655
Letter signed from Voltaire to Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 29 May 1775 [D19493]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 29 May 1775
CMV: cmv37653
Letter from Voltaire to Jean-François de La Harpe, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 2 September 1773 [D18535]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 2 September 1773
CMV: cmv37646
Letter from Voltaire to Jean-François de La Harpe, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 24 May 1773 [D18393]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 24 May 1773
CMV: cmv37643
Autograph letter signed from Sophie Durey de Verven to Voltaire, written from Montbrillant and dated 6 April 1773 [D18300]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 6 April 1773
CMV: cmv37639
Letter from Voltaire to Jean-François Marmontel, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 29 March 1773 [D18281]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 29 March 1773
CMV: cmv37638
Letter from Voltaire to Jean-François de La Harpe, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 22 January 1773 [D18151]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 22 January 1773
CMV: cmv37635
Partially autograph letter from Voltaire to Jean-François Marmontel, written largely in the hand of Wagnière and dated 4 November 1772 [D17996]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 4 November 1772
CMV: cmv37632

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