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Du beau palais de Luneville : autograph poem draft, [before 1749 Aug. 15?].

BIB_ID
330764
Accession number
MA 635.4
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
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 letter to Charles Juste de Beauvau and Marie Sophie de La Tour d'Auvergne.
Voltaire sent a copy of this poem in a letter dated 15 August 1749 to Charles Juste de Beauvau and Marie Sophie de La Tour d'Auvergne.--Cf. Besterman, no. D3985 n.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Summary
A draft of the poem, heavily revised.