Theatre-related documents sent by Lacombe
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THEATRE-RELATED-DOCUMENTS-SENT-BY-LACOMBE
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5-240 (I, f.254), ‘Paperasses de théâtre envoyées par Lacombe, 1775, à examiner’
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Theatre-related documents sent by Lacombe
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Brief Summary:
The manuscript is a draft of theatre-related documents sent by Lacombe, with the title ‘Paperasses de théâtre envoyées par Lacombe, 1775, à examiner’ written in Voltaire’s hand.
Detailed Summary:
This manuscript appears to consist only of a title page, which includes a title for a preceding collection of Voltaire’s plays: Samson, Eriphile, Les Frères ennemis, and Adélaïde du Guesclin. The manuscript is followed by what is presumably another title page with a title page, provided by Wagnière, which reads ‘Paperasses de théâtre envoyées par Lacombe, 1775, à examiner’. Additionally, Voltaire acknowledges a receipt of this manuscript from Lacombe on 29 May 1775 [D19494], stating that it seemed to him to have been ‘copié d’après un original qui était depuis près de quarante ans entre les mains de Mr de Pondevèlle’.
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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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1775
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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.6.
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