‘Proscription du comte d’Orange’
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PROSCRIPTION-DU-COMTE-DORANGE
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5-240 (III, f.339-344), ‘‘Proscription du comte d’Orange.’ Extrait des Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du comté de Bourgogne, par M. Dunod, avocat et professeur de droit à Besançon, vol. in 4°, à Besançon, chez Chaumet, 1740, p. 512 et suiv.’
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‘Proscription du comte d’Orange’
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Brief Summary:
The manuscript is an excerpt from Mémoires by M. Dunod, lawyer and professor of law in Besançon, vol. in 4°, Chaumet, 1740, p. 512 et al.
Detailed Summary:
The titular phrase ‘Proscription du comte d’Orange’ is written in Voltaire’s hand.
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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.
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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.19.
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