Qui est l’auteur d’un ballet de cour ? Du Paradis d’amour (1572) aux Fâcheux (1661)

The participatory ballet, known as the “ballet de cour” of the late sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth century, had the peculiarity of having no author in the modern sense, as evidenced by the complex status of the “libretto.” Requiring the contribution of several trades, it was sometimes conceived in a collective way and entrusted to individuals. Figures of poets and choreographers emerge, through the publication of their names in the ballet books, which makes it possible to consider the social and artistic position assumed by the claim of authorship.