Les Plaisirs de la paix

Les Plaisirs de la paix is a ballet in three acts and a prologue joined by four intermèdes. Louis-Thomas Bourgeois composed its score, and Menesson created its libretto. It was billed on 26 dates between its premiere on 29 April 1715 and 21 June 1715, but it was never returned to the stage of the Palais-Royal. The preface to the printed version of the ballet explains that the work is an allegory: L’Hyver represents the calm that prevails in Europe at the moment; the action taking place in the…