As indicated by the title of the critical edition from which this score is taken, Grands motets lorrains pour la cour de Louis XIV, these works, written by Henry Desmarest during his exile, when he was in a post at the court of Leopold I of Lorraine in Lunéville, were sent back to the French court.

Written for a five-part orchestra "à la française", these motets are distinguished stylistically by extremely complex contrapuntal writing and daring harmonies that certainly owe much to the encounters that Desmarest made during his exile, in Brussels, Barcelona and then Madrid.

This Domine, ne in furore, whose text, taken from Psalm 6, could be interpreted as a plea from the composer for pardon for his condemnation, was probably performed in October 1712 at Rambouillet, during mass, during a visit by Louis XIV to the Count of Toulouse.