 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.In short it is impossible to reconcile this farrago with common sense."