Vers à Mme la comtesse de Rochefort
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CMV33912
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5-240 (II, f.155 v°), ‘Vers à Mme la comtesse de Rochefort’
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Vers à Mme la comtesse de Rochefort
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Que Mercure à son gré se cache et s’illumine
Incipit Modernised:
Que Mercure à son gré se cache et s’illumine
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Brief Summary:
The manuscript is Wagnière’s hand, addressed to Marie Thérèse de Larlan de Kercadio, la comtesse de Rochefort.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is a quatrain dedicated to Mme la Comtesse de Rochefort, deemphasizing the significance of the god Mercury in favour of his ‘voisine’. There is no trace of the correspondence between Voltaire and Marie Thérèse de Larlan de Kercadio, la comtesse de Rochefort. However, she plays the role of the Baroness de Croupillac in L’Enfant prodigue.
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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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Ownership:
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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Provenance:
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)
OCV Reference:
146, ‘A Mme la comtesse de Rochefort’, p. 438
OCV Manuscript Reference:
146, ‘MS1’, p. 437
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