Fair copy of 28 chapters of Précis du siècle de Louis XV
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CMV36377
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MS 527
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Fair copy of 28 chapters of Précis du siècle de Louis XV
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Brief Summary:
Fair copy of 28 chapters of Précis du siècle de Louis XV.
Detailed Summary:
This copy appears to have been made from CMV36376, or another close copy as it integrates most of the corrections contained within CMV36376 with an additional paragraph at the end. It is the copy given by Voltaire to Madame de Pompadour, whose coat of arms features on the cover of the MS. The title page reads: ‘Histoire de la Guerre de 1741 (par Voltaire) imprimé en 1755 et 1756, in-12, mais avec différences, et recastue en grande partie dans le Siècle de Louis XV’.
The MS consists of 392 pages. However, p.265 was incorrectly numbered as p.365, an error not corrected before the end of the MS. The last page of the MS is thus numbered p.492.
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392 pp.
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1
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c.1755
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OCV Reference:
vol.29A-29C
OCV Manuscript Reference:
vol.29A, p.172-173