[Relatifs à la saisie et au transport à la Bastille des exemplaires de l’Histoire de la guerre de 1741 par Voltaire]

Ten letters from the period from 2 September to 20 November relating to the seizing of copies of the unauthorised edition of Voltaire's Histoire de la Guerre de 1741. These are preceded by an unrelated letter of April 1751 relating to documents and letters by Voltaire in the possession of his former secretary Longchamp. On the latter, see D.app.109 and D4446, note 1.