In 1684 une Demoiselle de qualité de la Province de Guienne, only eighteen years of age, published a French prose translation of the two odes in the _Mercure_ for July. In the same year appeared a metrical translation with Greek text, philological notes, and a life of Sappho in which are repeated the stories of disgraceful love, infatuation for Phaon, and the Leucadian Leap, _Les Poésies d’Anacreon et de Sapho traduites de Grec en vers François_. In 1692 we have another verse rendering by Baron de Longuepierre, who added a feeble poem in which Apollo vainly defends Sappho against the arrows of love. In 1694 Despréaux in his edition of the _Treatise on the Sublime_ gave a poetical version of the second ode which was so artistic that French critics in their enthusiasm pronounced it superior to the original, but its rhetorical phrases are far from the simplicity of Sappho’s Greek. Toward the end of the grand siècle La Fare, the Epicurean and inseparable friend of the Abbé de Chaulieu, translated the famous second ode. In 1704 appeared a verse translation by De la Fosse; in 1712 Gacon’s verse translation of Sappho’s two odes and Father Bougeant’s _Anacréon à Sapho, Dialogue en Vers Grecs_; and in 1713 appeared in French verse an imaginary epistle of Sappho to Phaon (_Mercure_ for April). In 1716 La Fosse published his verses based on those of the Le Fèvres. In 1758 Poinsinet de Sivry produced his good verse translations. Voltaire (1694-1778) made an elegant adaptation of the second ode, with his eye also on Theocritus’ second idyl: Reine des nuits, dis quel fut mon amour, Comme en mon sein les frissons et la flamme Se succédaient, me perdaient tour à tour; Quels doux transports égarèrent mon âme; Comment mes yeux cherchaient en vain le jour. Comme j’aimais et sans songer à plaire, Je ne pouvais ni parler ni me taire.