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Giselle is the most famous ballet originating from the Romantic era, which was created by the French poet and writer Theophile Gautier. He wrote the plot based in a German legend he had found in a book of poet Heinrich Heine. Gautier was very fond of the Italian ballerina and pupil of the choreographer Jules Perrot, Carlotta Grisi, thus, he made her the star of his ballet. The ballet was first performed in Russia in 1842 and, with the help of Marius Petipa, was restaged in Saint-Petersbourg a few years later. Sadly, it was dropped from Western Europe’s stages after a few years until it was