Le Cœur
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LE-COEUR
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5-240 (II, f.152-153), ‘Le Cœur, ‘par M. le chevalier de Boufflers’’
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Le Cœur
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Brief Summary:
The manuscript is a poem ‘Le Cœur’ written by Stanislas-Jean de Boufflers. The manuscript title includes the phrase ‘par M. le chevalier de Boufflers’, written in Voltaire’s hand.
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Physical Description
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2 ff.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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History
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[1766]
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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
Bibliography:
Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970), p.11.
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