Later, Voltaire was to sum up the famous fête: "On 17 August, at six in the evening Fouquet was the King of France: at two in the morning he was nobody."
Senare summerade Voltaire de berömda festerna: "den 17 augusti klockan 6 på kvällen var Fouqet Frankrikes kung. Klockan 2 på morgonen var han ingen alls".