Etienne No5el Damilaville (1723 - 1768) was one of the most assiduous correspondents of Voltaire: one knows at the present time 450 letters spread out on an about eight years, which arranges it in the group of the privileged people, and better still in that of the “sisters”.

the Bar, Sirven and others, it speaks to him about its plans, its campaigns by not sparing its adversaries, addresses its philosophical, published or new writings to him, and requests it to ensure the impression of it. Voltaire reads again his theological Honnêtetés and integrates them in the Pièces relative to Bélisaire, reasoned of sciences, arts and the trades