Autograph draft of ‘Manifeste en faveur du Prince Charles Édouard’
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CMV37489
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FS 315 C 20, ‘Déclaration du duc de Richelieu au Royaume-Uni [document manuscrit] : brouillon autographe de la main de Voltaire’
Title:
Autograph draft of ‘Manifeste en faveur du Prince Charles Édouard’
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Brief Summary:
Autograph draft of ‘Manifeste en faveur du Prince Charles Édouard’.
Detailed Summary:
The MS has been corrected throughout by Voltaire. It is almost identical to the print edition, except for l.21-27. Here, multiple versions have been crossed out and written over so extensively that only incomplete sentences are legible.
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1 f.
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Undecorated
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A second hand has added a note to the bottom of the MS reading: ‘Manifeste which the duc de Richelieu was to circulate in England during the Jacobite expedition of 1745.’ The MS has been heavily revised throughout by Voltaire.
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Date:
1745
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OCV Reference:
vol.28B, p.415-436
OCV Manuscript Reference:
vol.28B, p.428, ‘MS1’
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