 Having seen the play, Rousseau wrote to a friend with his reaction to it, and the letter fell into Voltaire's hands.Alluding to Voltaire's re-use of material from his earlier failed tragedy "Artémire", Rousseau described the play as "the second delivery of an abortion, taken again into the womb of its mother to receive fresh nourishment...I can discern nothing from the head to the tail but a number of disjointed and monstrous parts instead of a complete whole.