The texts include a sequence of Latin odes given by Chopard at the Dijon Académie (probably in the 1740s) in his role as “paranymph” (an official assistant to doctoral candidates at their final defense) in which he extols the virtues of each of the named candidates. The collection also includes a set of satirical texts poking fun at the relatively recent foundation of the Dijon Académie and the quality of its teachers. Also included are copies of several Voltaire texts: the Epître de Mr de Voltaire à sa maison de campagne of 1755 (“O Maison d’Aristippe, o Jardins d’Epicure”); his poem on the Lisbon earthquake (1755), and “La Navigation,” dating from 1773. There is a strong anti-Jesuit bias with several long satires including a “Calendrier Jesuitique,” describing a series of emblematic prints (perhaps imagined). Among the numerous other texts are a satire on the British capture of Île-d’Aix in 1759 following the Battle of Quiberon Bay; verses entitled “Assassinat du Roy de Portugal” on the supposed Jesuit plot to kill the Portuguese king in 1759; a “Chanson sur la prise de Port Mahon sur les Anglois” celebrating the French victory in Minorca; “Stances a M. de Buffon sur son passage dans sa Patrie,” which are verses by M. Baillot of the Dijon Academy, read in 1773 at a public reception for the great naturalist on the occasion of his visit to his alma mater; “La Navigation, ” which is an early copy of La Harpe’s ode which won a prize from the Académie française in 1773; and “Éloge du vin de Rheims ou: la Champagne vangée.”