Memoire on Turkey
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MEMOIRE-ON-TURKEY
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5-240 (II, f.425), ‘ Mémoire sur la Turquie. N. B. Les Druses ne disent jamais de mal du diable. Ils disent qu’il est assez malheureux. Parmi les Turcs, les fous sont réputés saints.’’
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Memoire on Turkey
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Ce mémoire a été envoyé à M. de Voltaire par de Tott.
Incipit Modernised:
Ce mémoire a été envoyé à M. de Voltaire par de Tott.
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Brief Summary:
This manuscript contains a Memoir on Turkey.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript title carries the following remark ‘N. B. Les Druses ne disent jamais de mal du diable. Ils disent qu’il est assez malheureux. Parmi les Turcs, les fous sont réputés saints.’ Additionally, both the title and the incipit are written in Voltaire’s hand.
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1 f.
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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.
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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.17.
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