Epistle to a friend
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EPISTLE-TO-A-FRIEND
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5-240 (II, f.163-168), ‘Epître à un ami, sur le renversement de ma fortune, ‘par M. de Rulhières”
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Epistle to a friend
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Eh quoi, dans mon malheur, c’est moi qui vous console!
Incipit Modernised:
Eh quoi, dans mon malheur, c’est moi qui vous console!
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Brief Summary:
The manuscript is an epistle, titled ‘Epistle to a Friend, on the Reversal of Fortune’ and is attributed to Monsieur de Rulhières. The title features the phrase ‘par M. de Rulhières’, written in Voltaire’s hand.
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Physical Description
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6 ff.
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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, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970), p.12.
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