MOLIERE Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit Ballet des ballets, dansé devant sa majesté en son chasteau de S. Germain en Laye au mois de décembre 1671.

Guibert, 530:1 ; Lacroix, 204 ; Tchemerzine-Scheler, IV, 815 ; Brunet, III, 1807; La Vallière, Ballets, p. 85; Malkin, Dancing by the Book, 107.20.

First edition, rare.

The Ballet des ballets is a selection of the best passages from the Divertissements Royaux. It includes in particular the first Intermezzo (pp.17-23), and the last Intermezzo of Psiché (pp.50-64), the third and fourth Entrées at the end of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (pp.44-49) and especially the Cérémonie Turque of this comedy (pp.39-43).

“Compiled by Molière using extracts from works given during the years of his collaboration with Lully, including Les Amants magnifiques (1670), Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, and Psiché” (Malkin).