Anecdotes, bon mots, saillies, &c. tirés des memoires secrets, pour servir a la l'histoire de la republique des lettres en France depuis 1762 jusqu'a nos jours, ca. 1778.

Format
Manuscript, Book
Description
1 v. (309 p.) ; 19 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Getty AAT genre
Compiled/​Created
ca. 1778.
Notes
Anonymous 18th-century French commonplace book (309 pp., including index), containing entries of literary gossip, dated from 9 February 1762 to 18 December 1778. Many of these are in verse, satirizing figures in the public eye; Voltaire is quoted a number of times. Possibly kept by someone close to the events.
Provenance
Bears bookplate of "B. Osorio Jr."
Source acquisition
Purchase, 2008. AM 2009-37.
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