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Jean Varloot, « Vrai ou faux ami? L'original des Eleuthéromanes », Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, ID : 10.3406/rde.1991.1097
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Jean Varloot: The Original Version of Les Eleuthéromanes. A detailed study of the original version of Diderot's poem Les Eleuthéromanes, first published in 1796 in the Décade philosophique. This version, entitled Abdication, was discovered by A. Wilson and is in the Hougthon Library at Harvard. It is here compared to the manuscript preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, which is the version published in 1796. The original version is seen to be a burlesque poem written for twelfth night in 1772; it was later considerably lengthened by the addition of violent antimonarchical lines and the title was changed, to give the version of the poem that Diderot proudly recited to a Swedish visitor in 1774. The comparison undertaken here shows the usefulness of textology for a better understanding of Diderot's work and ideas.