L’Eglogue de Versailles

L’Eglogue de Versailles is a short divertissement in one act of about a hundred lines that was first performed before the king at Versailles in 1668. Its libretto was written by Philippe Quinault; Jean-Baptiste Lully did its score. The king danced in its ballet with the marquis de Villeroy and the marquis de Rassan when it was mounted at Versailles for the first time. It was returned to the Court in July 1685, when it served as a curtain raiser for L’Idylle sur la paix; it was billed at the…