Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet. Epitaph on the King of Prussia: [a poem in 8 lines]
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CMV33064
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mssMO 6615
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Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet. Epitaph on the King of Prussia: [a poem in 8 lines]
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Ce Mortel profana tous les Galins divers
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A copy of Voltaire’s elegy for Adrienne Lecouvreur, a stage actress and friend who died in 1730.
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The poem consists of eight lines reading: ‘Ce Mortel profana tous les Galins divers, / Il chanta les vertus. Il commit toutes les Crimes, / Tyran en effete, Philosophe en Vers. / Il charma les mortels d’ont Il fit ses Victims: / Il ai du Dieu d’Amour, cher au Dieu des Combats, / Il noya dans le sand l’Europe & sa Patrie, / Cent mille Hommes par lui ont recus le trépas. / Aucun n’en à reçu la vie.’
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1 f.
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200 x 160 mm
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1
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The paper has been folded into four and since unfolded. There is a small stain in the upper left-hand section of f.1v.
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