Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te marama o Noema 1755, ka ngaro tana tama kotahi me tana hunaonga i te wa i riro atu ai raua i te tsunami mai i te
Te ruu o Lisbon i a ia e noho ana i te marama honi i Cadiz i Spain. Ko tenei aitua, i whakamaumaharahia e te kaitito French a Écouchard-Lebrun, e kiia ana kua pakaru te wairua o Racine. I hokona e ia tana whare pukapuka nui, i mutu tana tuhituhi, a, i whakatapua ia inaianei ki te mahi whakapono. I tenei wa ka tuhia e Racine tana mahi whakamutunga i whakaputaina, he tuhinga mo te tamaiti mohoao rongonui o te rautau 18 o France a Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc i uiuihia e ia, i tuhia hoki i roto i tana poem whakaaro nui "L'Épître II sur l'homme" (1747) ("Tuarua Epistle on Man").