French poetry -- 18th century

Scope and Contents A manuscript copy of the 1762 "authorized" edition of Voltaire's La Pucelle d'Orleans including 47 interleavings on which the copyist has supplied ommitted passages considered too risque to print. The result is something like an early critical edition of the text. A date in the final quarter of the 18th century seems likely, at earliest post-1762.The text is written in a single neat cursive hand throughout, with additions marked by...

Scope and Contents A bound manuscript on paper containing a collection of French poetry, followed by a catalogue of the library of Dom François Baud, monk and professor of rhetoric at the military academy at Pontlevoy Abbey in central France. The volume likely belonged to Baud himself, who may have also composed the poetry. Several of the pieces are dated to the 1760s, providing a rough compilation date of c. 1770.The poetry compiled here appears to have been composed for performance to mark...