Carnet Saint-Fargeau

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CMV37719

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MS-FS-11-002, f.41-98

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Carnet Saint-Fargeau

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Voltaire: Author
Samuel Villaume: Secretary
Unknown: Secretary

Incipit Diplomatic:

Toute Loi portée et consentie devient sacrée, et toute loi abolie, eût-elle cent mille ans d’ancienneté, est inutile.

Incipit Modernised:

Toute loi portée et consentie devient sacrée, et toute loi abolie, eût-elle cent mille ans d’ancienneté, est inutile.

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Partly

Brief Summary:

A book of reading notes on historical subjects, mainly in the hands of Voltaire, Collini and Villaume. There is a note in an unknown hand on f.58r. Wagnière has jotted at the start of the notebook (at the top of f.1r): ‘ce cahier contient 58 feuillets écrits, soit 116 pages’, then, heavily crossed out: ‘je prie qu’on en ait soin, n’aiant pout de double étant obligé de rendre l’original. le […] peut écrire à messieurs les rédacteurs ils pourront me l’envoier pour le copier’. The final leaf contains a list of errata for the work that was to become l’Essai sur les mœurs.

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OCV Reference:

OCV, vol.81, p.112-168

OCV Manuscript Reference:

OCV, vol.81, p.20-22

Record created by:

Claire Douard

Record created on:

23 July 2026