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VOLTAIRE.- La Ligue ou Henry le Grand, poëme...
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VOLTAIRE.- La Ligue ou Henry le Grand, poëme épique. Genève, Jean Mokpap, 1723. Pet. in-4° : [viii]-231 pp. (empreintes d'écriture sur le titre, lég. rousseurs, pet. travail de vers en fond de cahier, tache p. 77, qqs ff. presque déreliés). Rel. de l'époque : plein vélin, dos à nerfs (traces d'écriture à l'encre sur le 1er plat et sur le dos, mors sup. en partie fendu, coins émoussés).
Edition originale de ce poème épique consacré à Henri IV dont la rédaction avait été entamée à la Bastille dès 1717. Ne pouvant publier son texte en France, Voltaire contourna la censure grâce à l'aide d'Abraham Viret, libraire à Rouen. Celui-ci imprima clandestinement 4.000 copies (dont une moitié reliée) sous un pseudonyme aux consonnances jugées helvétiques, Jean Mokpap. L'oeuvre connut immédiatement un énorme succès et parut en 1728 sous le titre de "La Henriade".
# Brunet V-1360; # Voltaire [Cat. d'expo.], Brux., KBR, 1978, pp. 4/5; # Dictionnaire de Voltaire. Brux., 1994, pp. 95/96. 150 Euros
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