Paquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to music by Édouard Deldevez and Ludwig Minkus. Paul Foucher received royalties as librettist.
Published piano reduction of the Valse favorite from Deldevez's original score. London, 1847
(left to right) Georges Ellie as Iñigo, Carlotta Grisi as Paquita, and Lucien Petipa as Lucien d'Hervilly in Act I-Scene 2. Paris, 1844
Students of the Imperial Ballet School in the Mazurka des enfants from Petipa's revival of Paquita. St. Petersburg, 1881
Virginia Zucchi in the title role of Paquita. St. Petersburg, 1886
Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez was a French violinist, conductor at important Parisian musical institutions, composer, and music teacher.
Édouard Deldevez, 1857, by Ch. Vogt. Bibliothèque nationale de France.