Copy of ‘La mort de mademoiselle Le Couvreur, fameuse actrice’, after the 1775 Geneva edition
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CMV33069
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GEN MSS FILE 337, ‘La mort de mademoiselle Le Couvreur, fameuse actrice, [between 1775 and 1859].’
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Copy of ‘La mort de mademoiselle Le Couvreur, fameuse actrice’, after the 1775 Geneva edition
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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 copy matches the 1775 Geneva edition of Voltaire’s works, with the addition of one stanza at the end of the elegy. Two separate, unrelated 5-line stanzas, ostensibly attributed to Voltaire, also feature on the MS.
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Height: 380 mm
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2
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A note has been added to the MS indicating that it was sold in 1859 as part of the Dawson Turner collection.
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Sold as part of the Dawson Turner collection in 1859. Purchased from Christopher Edwards using the Philip and Margaret Neufeld Fund of the Yale Library Associates in 2001.
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vol.5
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