"Planned party by Mr. Noverre. "Text of four pages printed...

"Planned party by Mr. Noverre. "Text of four pages printed for the feasts of the coronation, project of a carousel. 28 x 20 cm. B.E. First Empire period (around 1805) Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), dancer, ballet master and dance theorist. He is considered to be the creator of the modern ballet Noverre made a name for himself from his debut at Fontainebleau, before the court of Louis XV, in 1742. In 1775, having become queen, Marie-Antoinette brought him to Paris and appointed him ballet master of the Royal Academy of Music, which would lead to difficult relations with the first dancers of the time, Vestris and Gardel. After a second stay in London, from 1785 to 1793, Noverre retired to Saint-Germain-en-Laye around 1795 and died there in 1810, while he was preparing the publication of a Dictionary of Dance. Noverre was a friend of Voltaire, Frédéric II, Mozart and David Garrick (who called him "the Shakespeare of dance"). Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.