Le Triomphe du mois de mars ou le berceau d’Achille

Le Triomphe du mois de mars ou le berceau d’Achille was presented as an opéra-ballet honoring the birth of His Majesty the King of Rome on 20 March 1811 (see seventeenth-century volume opéra-ballet). The central concept of the work was based on a concept exploiting the fact that Mars is the French name for the god of war and of the month of March, that is, a king born in this month will inevitably be the favorite of Mars. The music for the work was by Kreutzer , and Emmanuel Dupaty did the…