Réponse de M. de Voltaire aux vers de M. de la Harpe et de M. Chabanon
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CMV33917
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5-240 (II, f.181), ‘Réponse de M. de Voltaire aux vers de M. de la Harpe et de M. Chabanon’
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Réponse de M. de Voltaire aux vers de M. de la Harpe et de M. Chabanon
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Ils ont berné mon capuchon
Incipit Modernised:
Ils ont berné mon capuchon
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Yes
Brief Summary:
The manuscript features an after poem composed as a response to the verses written for Voltaire’s fête on 4 October 1767 by Messieurs de La Harpe (Jean-François de La Harpe) and de Chabanon (Michel-Paul Guy de Chabanon).
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is an eleven-line poem, with a rhyme scheme ABBAAACACACA, authored for the poets La Harpe and Chabanon, mildly praising their literary talent. The latter was also an actor and a playwright who had been leisuring at Ferney. The poem is a response to ‘Vers de Monsieur de La Harpe à Monsieur de Voltaire, pour le jour de la Saint-Francois’. Voltaire’s response was featured in the periodical press. Additionally, in comparison with other manuscripts, line 12 has minor discrepancies, reading ‘Qu’ils m’ont pris aussi mon’.
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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
Date:
Post-4 October 1767
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:
63B, ‘Shorter verse of 1767’, p. 591
OCV Manuscript Reference:
63B,’MS1′, p. 591
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