Research Catalog

Title

Traité sur la tolérance.

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778

Publication

[Rouen, France] : [Pierre Machuel], MDCCLXIV [1764]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Machuel, Pierre, 1722?-1808?
• Le Sueur, Pierre, 1669-1750
• Martin J. Gross Collection.

Description

iv, 210 p.; 23 cm (8vo)

Subjects

• Trials (Murder) > France > Toulouse > Early works to 1800
• Judicial error > France > Toulouse > Early works to 1800
• Religious tolerance > Catholic Church > Early works to 1800
• Calas, Jean, 1698-1762
• Calas, Marc-Antoine, -1761
• Toleration > Early works to 1800
• Religious tolerance > Early works to 1800
• Huguenots > France > Toulouse > Early works to 1800

Note

• By Voltaire. See sources cited below.
• Caption title: Traité sur la tolérance à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas.
• Unauthorized reprint of the original edition ([Geneva : Cramer], 1763), probably by the Rouen bookseller Pierre Machuel. See BN/BnF and Renwick, who cites a contemporary police report as evidence.
• Signatures: pi² A-N⁸ O1.
• Woodcut ornament on title page, signed P[ierre] L[esueur]; woodcut tailpieces.
• "Table des chapitres" on leaf pi2. Note beginning "N.B." at end of text, page 210.

Indexed In (note)

• BN
• BnF
• Thomas, D.H. Major French authors in Oxford libraries 1526-1800
• Bengesco, G. Voltaire
• Renwick, J. Traité sur la tolérance. Editions, extracts and translations (In Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 56C, p. 98-115)

Provenance (note)

• D. Bourgin (autograph on title page); manuscript note on front flyleaf, in an unidentified hand.

Binding (note)

• Modern light brown calf; red morocco spine label. Contemporary floral wrappers bound in.

Call Number

*KGV 13-104

OCLC

859169475

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778, author.

Title

Traité sur la tolérance.

Publisher

[Rouen, France] : [Pierre Machuel], MDCCLXIV [1764]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

BN, v. 214, col. 1432, no. 3975

BnF FRBNF31605147 http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb31605147p/

Thomas, D.H. Major French authors in Oxford libraries 1526-1800, p. 240

Bengesco, G. Voltaire, II, no. 1693.3

Renwick, J. Traité sur la tolérance. Editions, extracts and translations (In Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 56C, p. 98-115), 64B

Binding

Modern light brown calf; red morocco spine label. Contemporary floral wrappers bound in. NN

Provenance

D. Bourgin (autograph on title page); manuscript note on front flyleaf, in an unidentified hand. NN

Local Note

Martin J. Gross Collection.

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Place of Publication

France Rouen.

Added Author

Machuel, Pierre, 1722?-1808?, publisher.

Le Sueur, Pierre, 1669-1750, woodcutter.

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Research Call Number

*KGV 13-104