La Femme qui a Raison

La Femme qui a Raison (‘The Reasonable Wife’), is a verse comedy in three acts written by Voltaire in 1749.

The play was first performed in 1749 at a feast in honour of Stanisław Leszczyński in the castle of Lunéville[1][2] and first published in 1759.

[3]: 148 The play was written just after Voltaire moved from Paris to the court of Lorraine with Émilie du Châtelet.

However her husband M. Duru has been living in India for twelve years and has already planned a marriage between Erise and Damis with the children of wealthy mill owner M. Gripon.

Cramer never printed a separate edition of La Femme Qui a Raison, and it is only a misunderstanding of sources that suggests otherwise.