Vers à Mme ***
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CMV33913
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5-240 (II, f.156), ‘Vers à Mme ***’
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Vers à Mme ***
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Incipit Diplomatic:
L’Art dit un jour à la Nature
Incipit Modernised:
L’Art dit un jour à la Nature
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Brief Summary:
The MS is a short poem by Voltaire.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is a poem comprised of fifteen lines, with a rhyme scheme ABBA CDDC EEC FGFG. Alluding to an archetypical tension between nature and nurture, the lyrical subject suggests that nature claims victory over its rival. For more contextual information on the content of the manuscript, see Voltaire’s friendly letter to Marquise d’Ussé in December 1734 (D810). The poem is also known by its alternative title ‘L’Art et la nature’.
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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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[1730]
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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)
OCV Reference:
146, ‘A Madame la marquise d’Ussé’, p. 284
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