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The poem would later be included in a letter from Voltaire to Nicolas-Claude Thieriot, written from Les Délices and dated 8 May 1758 [D7728].
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: 1758
CMV: cmv37582
The text is largely written in the secretarial hand of Samuel Villaume. Voltaire has added corrections throughout.
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.1753
CMV: cmv37554
Repository: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Date: c.1769-1772
CMV: cmv37535
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
CMV: cmv37534
The manuscript is incomplete as the beginning of ‘Conciles’ is crossed out.
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.1763-1770
CMV: cmv37533
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 1753-1755
CMV: cmv37532
Repository: Present Whereabouts Unknown
Date: c.1749
CMV: cmv37515
The MS has been corrected throughout by Voltaire. It is almost identical to the print edition, except for l.21-27. Here, multiple versions have been crossed out and written over so extensively that only incomplete sentences are legible.
Repository: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium
Date: 1745
CMV: cmv37489
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.1745
CMV: cmv37487
Repository: Present Whereabouts Unknown
Date: c.1746
CMV: cmv37484