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Contemporary copy of 'Épître à Mr de Saint-Lambert', 1769

Also included with the MS is a copy of ‘Le plaisier et l’Ennui, fable par m. Drobacq.’

Repository: Private Collection
Date: 1769
CMV: cmv37530
Contemporary copy of Chant 1 of 'La Pucelle d'Orleans'

This MS appears to be an early copy of the poem, later revised by a second hand to align with the Louvain edition. More than 120 changes have been made to the text throughout.

Repository: Private Collection
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv37529
Contemporary copy of 'Épître à M. De Voltaire'
Repository: Private Collection
Date: post-1740
CMV: cmv375278
Three Italian sonetti, c.18th

This MS contains copies of three Italian sonetti: one from Giovanni Lami (1697-1770) who writes against Voltaire, one titled ‘Al re di prussia’, and one by Pietro Metastasio (1698-1792).

Repository: Private Collection
Date: late c.18th
CMV: cmv37528
Contemporary copy of 'Avis important au public au sujet de l'arrivée de mr de Voltaire à paris au mois de février de l'annèe 1778'
Repository: Private Collection
Date: post-1778
CMV: cmv37527
Contemporary copy of 'Las Castrats', 1771
Repository: Private Collection
Date: 1771
CMV: cmv37526
Contemporary copy of 'Le pour et le contre' written on the pastedown of a copy of 'La religion defendue' published in 1733

The poem commences on the front pastedown, continues on the verso of the title page, and concludes on the back pastedown. The copy is incomplete and features several variants. The lines are divided as follows:

  • Front pastedown: l.1-12
  • Verso of title page: l.38-58
  • Back pastedown: l.115-132
Repository: Private Collection
Date: post-1733
CMV: cmv37525
Contemporary copy of 'Épître au roi de Prusse', dated April 1753
Repository: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
Date: April 1753
CMV: cmv37522
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
Contemporary copy of 'À madame de Boufflers, qui s'appelait Madeleine', c.1749
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1749
CMV: cmv37517

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