Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (C 3044-3047), 1764, n.d.
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CMV33689
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GEN MSS 89, C3046
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Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (C 3044-3047), 1764, n.d.
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Brief Summary:
A copy of four lines of verse by Voltaire, titled ‘Vers à l’usage de Monsieur le Baron de Boswell’.
Detailed Summary:
The verse is taken from the last four lines of ‘Stances irrégulières. A F.A.A.R. la princesse de Suède, Ulrique de Prusse’ dated January 1747.
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1 f.
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The MS is written on rag paper. There is a tear to the right-hand side, obscuring the name of the copyist.
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A note in a second hand has been added, stating that the verse was by Voltaire, but that the copy had been made by the ‘plus celebre M[?]’.
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