The piece was written to celebrate the French victory at the Battle of Fontenoy in the War of the Austrian Succession.
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The second entrée, L'histoire ("History"), tells the story of the Hellenistic king of Syria Seleucus I Nicator, who gives up his fiancée Stratonice when he learns his son Antiochus I Soter is passionately in love with her (this tale was also the subject of a later 18th century French opera, Étienne Méhul's Stratonice).
Les Misérables | Les Misérables (musical) | Aix-les-Bains | Les Claypool | Les Paul | Les Six | Les pêcheurs de perles | Les Inrockuptibles | Les Brown (bandleader) | Les Brown | Pernes-les-Fontaines | Les Blank | Yverdon-les-Bains | Sotteville-lès-Rouen | Les XX | Les Miserables | Les Genevez | Les Fradkin | Les Enfers | Les Dawson | Issy-les-Moulineaux | Thonon-les-Bains | Salins-les-Bains | Les Vandyke | Les Troyens | Les Mureaux | Les McCann | Les Huguenots | Les Halles | Les Aspin |