Copy of ‘Mort d’Arroüet de Voltaire’, 1778
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CMV33081
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*KGV 09-54, ‘Mort d’Arroüet [sic] de Voltaire, 1778.’
Title:
Copy of ‘Mort d’Arroüet de Voltaire’, 1778
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OCLC Number:
316905429
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Brief Summary:
A manuscript in an unidentified hand describing Voltaire’s final visit to Paris, his illness, death, and burial.
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Height: 120 mm
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Bound in contemporary marbled calf, gilt. There is a red morocco spine label. The MS is kept in a modern green cloth case lined in brown suedecloth.
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Pierre Decoussant has added an autograph note at the end of the MS. J.F. Eusèbe Castaigne has also added a note to the free front enpapers, which has been signed ‘E.C.’. Frédéric Lachèvre has added his bookplate to the MS.
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Owned by Pierre Decoussant, J.F. Eusèbe Castaigne, Joseph Castaigne, Frédéric Lachèvre, and Pierre Berès.
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Passed at the 6th Berès sale, Drouot-Richelieu on 17-18 December 2007 (Lot 213). Part of the Martin J. Gross Collection.
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