After a few more or less happy trials, he published in 1747 ‘Memnon, histoire orientale’, then the following year, the novel was republished under the title of ‘Zadig ou la destinée, histoire orientale’. It is actually by taking part in a game during a party given in Sceaux for the duchess du Maine that Voltaire must have started to write tales. When Voltaire writes this novel, he is in Cirey, with Madame du Châtelet. I offer you the Translation of a Book from an ancient Wise person, who being happy for having nothing to do, was happy by writing the History of Zadig”.
The dedicatory epistle to Madame de Pompadour, called The Sultana Shéraa starts this way: “Delight for the eyes, torment of the hearts, light of the spirit, I do not kiss dust at your feet, because you barely walk, or on Iran carpets or on roses. Our copy corrects the mistakes mentioned in the errata of the previous edition and is published more or less simultaneously during the second trimester of 1748. This hybrid volume was given in Paris as from September 10th, 1748. The following year, in 1748, Zadig was completed and published for the first time under this title, but the twelve first quires were printed by the bookseller Prault and Voltaire had the rest of his manuscript printed by the bookseller Lescure of Nancy. In 1747, the previous year, this novel, incomplete of 3 chapters out of 18, was published under the title Memnon. Contemporary binding.įirst edition from Lyon of Zadig and first one complete from a single bookseller.
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Full marbled calf, large coat of arms at the center of the covers, spine ribbed and decorated, sprinkled edges. Lettres d’Aza ou d’un péruvien.Ģ texts bound in one 12mo volume of: I/ viii pp., (1) l., 178 pp. Zadig ou la Destinée, Histoire orientale.
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