Copy of Gresset pleure sur ses ouvrages by Alexis Piron in Voltaire’s hand
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CMV34564
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MA 635.3, ‘Gresset pleure sur ses ouvrages : manuscript copy of the poem in the hand of Voltaire : [ca. 1759 July 1?].’
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Copy of Gresset pleure sur ses ouvrages by Alexis Piron in Voltaire’s hand
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Brief Summary:
Copy of Gresset pleure sur ses ouvrages by Alexis Piron in Voltaire’s hand.
Detailed Summary:
The poem is an epigram against Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset by Alexis Piron. The poem was sent to Voltaire in a letter from Nicolas-Claude Thieriot, dated 1 July 1759 [D8382].
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1 pp.
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Height: 196 mm
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Undecorated
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A second, unknown hand has addes a note to the MS stating that it is in the hand of Voltaire.
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c.1 July 1759
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Purchased from J. Pearson & Co. in London in 1910 by Pierpont Morgan.
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