 The piece was written to celebrate the French victory at the Battle of Fontenoy in the War of the Austrian Succession.It was revived at the same venue on 21 August 1753.Neither Cuthbert Girdlestone nor Graham Sadler (in the "New Penguin Guide") consider this among Rameau's finest works, though both remark on the originality of its overture, which breaks the traditional Lullian mould common to French overtures up to that time.