The piece was printed under the title ‘À Monsieur de Mauléon’ in vol.5 of the Collection complète des oeuvres de Monsieur de Voltaire (Amsterdam [Rouen], 1764), and in Épîtres, satires, contes et pièces fugitives du poète philosophe (London [Bouillon], 1771), p.392. Bengesco contested the authorship of the piece and claimed it was not, in fact, by Voltaire.

The text was printed in Le Second recueil de nouvelles pièces fugitives de M. de Voltaire (Geneva-Paris, 1762) p.cxxxii. The attribution to Voltaire is contested by Bengesco.

The text was printed in the Nouveaux mélanges (Geneva, 1765), iii, p.399.