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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 d'un Turc', undated

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
  • (d) Résumé historique et critique.
Repository: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Date: c.1750
CMV: cmv37518
Copy of 'Le Rosaire. Conte', undated

It is believed that this MS is the only copy of the text.

Repository: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv36428
Copy of 'Cette Plume à Sophie Est Seule Réservée', c.1750
Repository: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Date: c.1750
CMV: cmv36423

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