Autograph letter from Jean Baptiste Nicolas Formont to Voltaire, dated 15 April 1733 [D598].
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CMV33898
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5-240 (II, f.87), ‘Lettre de Formont à Voltaire (1732)’
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Autograph letter from Jean Baptiste Nicolas Formont to Voltaire, dated 15 April 1733 [D598].
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Vous vous donés donc Les airs de faire Comme les autres et de sortir quelque fois de chés vous?
Incipit Modernised:
Vous vous donnez donc Les airs de faire Comme les autres et de sortir quelquefois de chez vous?
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No
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Jean Baptiste Nicolas Formont to Voltaire, dated 15 April 1733.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is an autograph letter featuring a decastich, with the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDDC. The poem explores the themes of creation, imitation, and authenticity/counterfeit. The author betrays his fascination with Voltaire’s creative prowess. According to T. D. N. Besterman, ‘Caussy, p. 9, makes it appear that MS1 is dated 1732, which is not the case; this note may be supposed to have been written after the publication of the Temple du goût, and of course, before Formont left Paris for Rouen.’
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1 f.
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1
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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15 April 1733
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Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)
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