Le Duc d'Alençon

Voltaire

Le Duc d'Alençon

ou les frères ennemis: Tragédie en trois actes. Ouvrage inédit, publié pour la première fois par Louïs Du Bois.

Description: FIRST EDITION, on 'Papier vélin', uniformly slightly browned, pp. [iv, initial blank and half-title], [x], 35, 8vo, uncut stitched in the original wrappers, wrappers frayed

Publication Details: Paris: Pluquet, and Brissot-Thivars, 1821

Notes: Voltaire wrote this play at the behest of Frederick the Great. There are no female parts, as there were no princesses who could perform them at Potsdam (and not many women at Court).

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Price: £750

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1821

Stock Number: 62082

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