Voltaire/Franklin, 1775
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CMV33065
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DOC MSS 16 (III)
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Voltaire/Franklin, 1775
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A manuscript copy of an extract from Voltaire’s Essay sur les Mœurs et l’Esprit des Nations, taken from the 1775 edition. Also included in an extract from Benjamin Franklin’s La Science de Bonhomme Richard, and a heroic-comic poem titled ‘Le Lutrin’.
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The copies may have been made as educational tools to teach French language.
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Owned by the Saugrain family.
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Donated by Frederick Saugrain, son of Dr. Antoine Francois Saugrain.
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