Voltaire writes to his ‘divins anges’ in order to present them with his Mémoire à tous les anges. He notes that their committee is as good as the committee of the intended recipient because it is made up of people from the gambling den and very good actors, and that they must inform the recipient that they cannon share his opinion on most of his objections. The committee, he writes, shudder with indignation when it is suggested that they put their play on ice and that though the recipient quotes Zaire at them, they miss out the vital context of love. The committe believes that the recipient is mistaken in thinking that Olympe is the leading role as he only assumes this position when Statira is dead. Voltaire concludes by discussing Olympe’s willingness to throw herself into the stake for love, writing ‘if you don’t find that honestly beautiful, in my faith you are difficult.’

Voltaire discusses his dismay at Marie-Louis Denis [née Mignot] [née Mignot] having compromised herself with a gambling den. He writes that he has sent letters to de Richelieu making his feelings about the gambling den clear and places the matter in the hands of God, adding that he did in Zulime as much as Louis XIV and Louis XV would allow him to do. He ends by asking the recipient to put him ‘at the feet of Madame la Duchesse du Maine’, writing that she is a ‘predestined soul’ who will love comedy until her last moment. He advises the recipient to administer her a beautiful play rather than an extreme unction if she falls ill and concludes that ‘one dies as one has lived.’