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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Incipit Diplomatic:
Ce Mortel profana tous les Galins divers
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Brief Summary:
A copy of Voltaire’s elegy for Adrienne Lecouvreur, a stage actress and friend who died in 1730.
Detailed Summary:
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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Owned by Elizabeth Robinson Montagu. The owned by Matthew Montagu, 4th Baron of Rokeby. Passed in 1899 to his granddaughter Emily J. Climenson and upon her death in 1921 to Reginald Blunt.
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Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach in 1925
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