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Old copy of Stances sur le bonheur de la sagesse
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CMV34517
Repository:
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium
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FS 322 A 132-134 [M-RP], ‘Stances sur le bonheur de la sagesse [document manuscrit]’
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French
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No
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The text is in 12 stanzas and is accompanied by a letter dated 12 August 1764. The poem was first printed in the Journal encyclopédique (October 1764), VII.i, p.110-115.
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Letter, Poetry
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Copy (Old)
Physical Description
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3 pp.
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8vo
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Bound with other manuscripts in vellum.
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History
Date:
c.1760
Ownership:
Owned by Marie-Charles-Apollin Briquet (1800-1881), and Paul-August-Cyrille de Launoit (1891-1981).
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Bibliography
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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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