Ballet des Rues de Paris . Recit aux dames (anonyme, Paris 1643)

Ballet des Rues de Paris, Recit aux dames -- ballet-de-cour livret danced at the French court in 1643, printed as an anonymous BNF Gallica-held quarto pamphlet. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1643-Rues_(BNF).txt. STRUCTURE: Prologue de Paris (the city personified as Queen-of-the-world) + 19 numbered Entrees, each themed on one or more Paris streets (Francs-Bourgeois, Mauvais Garcons, Jardins, Courtaut-Vilain, Anjou/Bretaigne/Poitou, Savatterie, Lavandieres, Singes, Geoffroy-l'Asnier, Chantres + Poupee/Marmouzets, Menestriers, bons Enfans, Homme-Arme, Michel-le-Comte/Comtesse-d'Artois, Juifs, Pierre-au-Laict, cinq Diamans, Heros, Mores). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: (1) earliest large-scale French-court-ballet organized entirely around named Paris streets, making the city itself the protagonist -- anticipates the 18c-19c urban-topography literary genre (Mercier 1781, Balzac). (2) REGENCY-ERA ATTESTATION: 1643 is the year of Louis XIII's death (14 May) and the proclamation of Anne d'Autriche's regency (18 May). This ballet bridges the Louis-XIII burlesque-ballet-de-cour tradition (LOC-1617-DURAND, LOC-1619-GRAMONT, LOC-1623-BOISROBERT, LOC-1625-BORDIER-FEES, LOC-1626-ESTOILE-BILLEBAHAUT) into the early Louis-XIV regency period. (3) SOCIAL-CLASS INCLUSIVITY: unlike earlier ballet-de-cour with foreign monarchs, virtues, and deities, the Rues features COMMONER-OCCUPATIONS (lavandieres, savatiers, laitieres, menestriers, jardiniers, enfans, Jews, Moors) as characters -- prefigures Moliere's 1660s-1670s bourgeois-and-servant comic theater. (4) FILLS 1640s CORPUS GAP: before this import, the LOD ballet-de-cour chain skipped from 1626 Estoile to 1661 Benserade (35-year gap); 1643 RUES + 1643 MARIAGE together provide early-regency documentation. Has_Step_Detail = No: livret-only, no step notation. Registered with 20 new canonicals (H-REN-BRA-F0340..F0359).