Réponse à M. le chevalier de Boufflers, à Ferney, 15 janvier 1766
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CMV33911
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5-240 (II, f.154), ‘Réponse à M. le chevalier de Boufflers, à Ferney, 15 janvier 1766’
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Réponse à M. le chevalier de Boufflers, à Ferney, 15 janvier 1766
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Certaine dame honnête et savante et profonde
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Certaine dame honnête et savante et profonde
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No
Brief Summary:
The manuscript is in Wagnière’s hand, addressed to M. le chevalier de Boufflers.
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1 f.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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History
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15 January 1766
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After Voltaire’s death, the MS passed into the ownership of Catherine II and remained in the imperial and then national collection thereafter.
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This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
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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