Les Stratagèmes de l’Amour

Les Stratagèmes de l’Amour was billed as an opéra-ballet in three acts and a prologue with a score by André-Cardinal Destouches and a libretto by Pierre-Charles Roy (see seventeenth century volume for opéra-ballet, Destouches, and Roy). It was composed to celebrate the marriage of Louis XV and was dedicated to the queen. It did not enjoy great success, but it did inspire a parody of the same title by Fuzelier at the Foire St. Germain in the spring of 1726 (see seventeenth-century volume for…