Les Pages du duc de Vendôme

Les Pages du duc de Vendôme was a ballet in a single act of 17 scenes with music by Adalbert Gyrowetz and choreography by Jean Louis Aumer, ballet master of the Royal Academy of Music (see eighteenth-century volume for Aumer). The work was presented first in Paris by the Royal Academy of Music at the Favart Theatre on 18 October 1820, and it enjoyed great success. It was billed at the Opéra every year between 1820 and 1833, and it was not dropped from the repertory until after its 128th…