Printed 1745 edition of La Bataille de Fontenoy, accompanied by a printed billet addressed to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif on the reverse in Voltaire’s hand
Printed 1745 edition of La Bataille de Fontenoy, accompanied by a printed billet addressed to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif on the reverse in Voltaire’s hand
Printed 1745 edition of La Bataille de Fontenoy, accompanied by a printed billet addressed to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif on the reverse in Voltaire’s hand.
Detailed Summary:
The poem is taken from the 1745 Imprimerie Royale, Paris edition and is accompanied by one of five hundred printed billets published by Jacques Anisson-Duperron in 1745 as an accompaniment to the edition of the poem printed by the Imprimerie Royale, Louvre. The billet has been addressed to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif at ‘rue des Bons Enfans, chez monsieur d’Argenson’ in Voltaire’s hand.