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Gresset pleure sur ses ouvrages : manuscript copy of the poem in the hand of Voltaire : [ca. 1759 July 1?].

BIB_ID
330762
Accession number
MA 635.3
Creator
Piron, Alexis, 1689-1773.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.6 cm
Notes
A copy of this epigram was sent to Voltaire in a letter from Nicolas Claude Thieriot on 1 July 1759.--Cf. Besterman, no. D8382.
Part of a collection of autograph poems of Voltaire. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level catalog record for more information.
Possible date of writing based on Voltaire's receipt of a letter from Thieriot containing this epigram.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Summary
A manuscript copy of an epigram against Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset in the hand of Voltaire; followed by an attestation in an unidentified hand.