Image: Représentation d'Alceste de Lully-Quinault, Versailles, fête de 1674, Le Pautre - Gallica
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Description: Performance of Lully's opera Alceste ("ornamented with ballet entrées") in the Marble Court at Versailles on 4 July 1674, the first day (Premiere Journée) of the grand divertissement ordered by Louis XIV to celebrate his recent victories in Franche-Comté
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