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Original manuscript copy of an article about Voltaire published in the Morning Post and Daily Advertiser on 23 March 1779
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CMV:
CMV34529
Repository:
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium
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FS 317 C 31, ‘Article sur Voltaire destiné au Morning Post [texte manuscrit]’
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French
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Brief Summary:
Original manuscript copy of an article about Voltaire published in the Morning Post and Daily Advertiser on 23 March 1779.
Detailed Summary:
The letter concerns the refusal of the Cordeliers to celebrate the mass on the anniversary of Voltaire’s death requested by l’Académie française.
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Académie Française, Cordeliers, Death, Mass
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Letter
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Original
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1 f.
Format:
4to
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200 x 155 mm
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Bound with other letters in full red morocco, framed with three gilded fillets and a decorated spine. The edges are gilded.
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23 March 1779
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Bibliography
Bibliography:
Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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