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Anecdotes Importantes
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CMV37108
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National Library of Russia, Voltaire Library
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5-240 (VIII, f.79v-80), ‘Anecdotes Importantes’
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Le projet de Fouquet trouvé à Saint-Mande était contre le cardinal Mazarin.
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French
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Physical Description
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Ink on paper
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2 ff.
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Folio
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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After Voltaire’s death, the MS passed into the ownership of Catherine II and remained in the imperial and then national collection thereafter.
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This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
Bibliography
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Fernand Caussy, Oeuvres inédites (France, E. Champion, 1914), p.307-9.
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