text: " The Jesuits strenuously urged him to put into their hands a corrected copy of the _Lettres Persanes_ in which he had expunged the passages having an irreligious tendency but he refused to give it to them; but he gave the copy to the Duchesse d'Aiguillon and Madame Dupre de St Maur who were in the apartment with instructions for its publication saying "I will sacrifice every thing to religion but nothing to the Jesuits