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André Magnan, « Le nouveau manuel épistolaire de Chaudon et la correspondance de Voltaire. Lettres oubliées, variantes et notes critiques », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1974.2782
Chaudon's Nouveau Manuel épistolaire and Voltaire's Correspondance A description and inventory of the Nouveau Manuel épistolaire attributed to Louis-Mayeul Chaudon. It revealed at its date of publication (1785-1787) a good number of unknown letters from XVIIIth Century writers — Montesquieu, Trublet, Diderot, d'Alembert, Voltaire, etc. — , most of which have since been discovered in other sources. However one can still extract from it four unknown letters of Voltaire and one adressed to him, as well as numerous indications relative to other texts of Voltaire's Correspondence : variants, details of datation and identification, etc.