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"The first performance was terrible, as he told Formont: ‘The actors performed badly, the promenade was in a tumult, and I had left in a few careless passages which were picked on with such ferocity that the show was lost.' But it recovered, and Voltaire was soon boasting of its success to his friends Cideville and Formont."

Interesting how during his long life he had many ups and downs... Never given up.