Manuscrits et tapuscrits autographes de Zadig

Autograph manuscripts and typescripts by André-Ferdinand Hérold for the libretto of Zadig, musical comedy premiered on June 24, 1938 at the Opéra-Comique with music by Jean Dupérier.
Several hundred typewritten and manuscript pages, numerous corrections in ink and pencil in the librettist's hand, stamp of the general agency for dramatic and literary copies H. Compère on the front cover and first endpaper of the paperbound copy.
The paperbound copy contains a complete version of the libretto and all the ensembles are incomplete fragments of several states of the text which, as indicated by a note from a previous owner, cannot be reclassified in logical order. Some fragments appear to be drafts of poems.