 In this form, it proved a success, with two-thirds of all boxes at the theatre pre-booked and crowds besieging the theatre, and thus brought Voltaire back into France's upper cultural echelons.It even proved the subject of the 1725 parody "le Mauvais ménage de Voltaire", by Dominique and Legrand.Rousseau's reaction to the play was one of the causes of his long dispute with Voltaire.