La Jolie Fille de Gand

La Jolie Fille de Gand was a pantomime-ballet in three acts and nine tableaux with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, a score by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Albert Decombe (see eighteenth-century volume for Decombe). It had its world premier at the Royal Academy of Music in Paris on 22 June 1842 with sets by Pierre Cicéri , Philastre , and Cambon . The ballet begins at Gand in the shop of the goldsmith Césarius, where the dancing master Zéphiros is giving a lesson to Agnès…