Autograph draft of part of Chapter 24 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741
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CMV33706
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MS 16
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Autograph draft of part of Chapter 24 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741
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Incipit Diplomatic:
l’interest du statouder n’etoit pas de continuer la guerre dans les commencements d’une autorité quil falloit affermer, et qui netoit encor soutenue d’aucun subside reglé.
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Brief Summary:
Autograph draft of a passage at OCV, vol.29B, ch.26, pp.106-7, ll.5-45.
Detailed Summary:
Voltaire discusses the animosity between Louis XV and the new Stadtholder. The bitterness was, Voltaire notes, kept alive by the court of Vienna who wanted to strip Marie-Thérèse of the heritage of her fathers in spite of the treaties that had been signed. The court of London stirred Europe during the Congress of Breda, in order to make new enemies of Louis XV. George II of England then allied with Elizabeth Petrovna, Empress of Russia, who marched 50,000 men into Livonia and promised to equip 50 galleys that could be sent wherever George II wished, for the price of £100,000 sterling. This treaty could not be concluded until June 1747. The King of France advanced his conquests and quickly took Dutch Flanders. He also claimed Maastricht and Nimegen.
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2 ff.
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270 x 182 mm
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1
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The paper is watermarked with text reading: ‘MOVSSON[?]’.
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Undecorated
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Voltaire has made revisions throughout in the form of crossings out and the addition of extra and/or corrected text in superscript. His pagination survives, with these pages being labelled as p.17-20.
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A large piece of card with the address ‘Maison Charavay à Paris, 3, Rue de Furstenberg’ printed on one side and notes of the manuscript’s provenance written in an unknown modern hand on the reverse is included.
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Owned by Raoul Bonnet in 1946. Then owned by Léon Muller in Saint-Mandé (Seine).
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Bought at auction by Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) in Paris on 22 November 1968 (Lot 172).
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OCV Reference:
OCV, 29B, 26, p.106-107, l.5-45
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