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Voltaire signs the letter as: ‘le vieux mouton broutant au pied des alpes’.
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 24 May [1761]
CMV: cmv37312
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 14/25 May 1761
CMV: cmv37311
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 10 February 1753
CMV: cmv37136
The MS contains several variants. The most notable is l.24, where the name ‘Marot’ has been replaced with ‘Rousseau’. As this variant does not make sense, it implies that it was introduced by the copyist rather than by Voltaire himself.
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1713
CMV: cmv36594
Repository: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscripts Library, Yale University, Connecticut, US
Date: 30 April 1769
CMV: cmv36526
The text was published in the Gazette littéraire de l’Europe on 28 March 1764. This MS features several variants compared to the text of the Gazette littéraire.
Repository: Institut et musée Voltaire, Geneva
Date: c.28 March 1764
CMV: cmv36520
Repository: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 13 July 1767
CMV: cmv36490
This copy of the letter is incomplete, ending with the phrase: ‘A peine a-t-on découvert avec le microscope’.
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 3 May 1776
CMV: cmv36487
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 21 March 1768
CMV: cmv36312
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 28 November 1762
CMV: cmv36034