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Contemporary copy of 'Le Mondain', c.1739

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
Contemporary copy of 'A Uranie'

There exist two vastly different copies of this poem, perhaps suggesting that one was authored by Voltaire, and the other by Saurin.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1734
CMV: cmv37098
Contemporary copy of 'A madame la marquise Du Châtelet. De Cirey où il était pendant son exil, et où elle lui avait écrit de Paris'

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
Contemporary copy of 'A M. le duc de Richelieu sur son mariage'

The poem was written to celebrate the marriage of Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine to Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duc de Richelieu.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1740
CMV: cmv37096
Contemporary copy of 'A mademoiselle de Guise, dans le temps qu'elle devait épouser M. le duc de Richelieu'

The poem was written to celebrate the marriage of Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine to Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duc de Richelieu.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1740
CMV: cmv37095
Variants of Act IV and Act V of 'Alzire', written in the hand of Bigex with autograph additions by Voltaire, c.1734

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
Copy of 'Quatrain pour le portrait de feue madame la duchesse de Bouillon' sent by Voltaire to Cideville c.1735

The MS forms part of a collection titled ‘Poésies de Voltaire’.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1735
CMV: cmv36661
Copy of 'La Bastille', c.1717-1726
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1717-1726
CMV: cmv36610
Copy of 'Pour Madame de Nointel'
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1724
CMV: cmv36608
Copy of 'Épitre à Monsieur l'Abbé Servien'
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1720s
CMV: cmv36596

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