Les Festes grecques et romaines

Les Festes grecques et romaines was offered as a heroic ballet in three acts and a prologue. Colin de Blamont won the Saint-Michel cross for the music he wrote for it. Louis Fuzelier composed its libretto (see seventeenth-century volume for Fuzelier). The work was based on an idea suggested by the duke d’Aumont, and it was supposed to be given at the Louvre with the king in the role of Auguste in the third entrée, but these plans went awry. La Vallière reports that it was produced twice in the…