Marie Vernon
in Le marché des Innocents

First presented by the Imperial Ballet under the title Le marché des parisien on 5 May [O.S. 23 April] 1859 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St Petersburg, the principal dancers on that occasion were Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as Lizetta), Marius Petipa (as Simon), and Timofei Stukolkin (as the Marquis Megrèle).

The work was subsequently restaged by Marius Petipa for its Paris première, which was on 29 May 1861. For this production, the title was changed to Le marché des Innocents and the names of the main characters were changed from Lizetta and Marquis Megrèle to Gloriette and Lindor. The principal dancers were again Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as Gloriette), and Louis Mérante (as Lindor).