Old copy of L’apothéose du roi Potaut
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CMV34495
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FS 321 A 43-45, ‘L’apothéose du roi Potaut. Par Mr. de Voltaire en 1738 [texte manuscrit]’
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Old copy of L’apothéose du roi Potaut
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Brief Summary:
Old copy of L’apothéose du roi Potaut.
Detailed Summary:
This piece is a satire against Madame Du Barry and was published in Mémoires secrets du 2 janvier 1769 and the Correspondance littéraire secrète de Métra (6 January 1776). The attribution to Voltaire is contested by Bengesco.
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3 pp.
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Bound with other manuscripts in full fawn calf.
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1768
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Owned by Paul-Auguste-Cyrille de Launoit (1891-1981).
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Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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