International Traveller

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A century ago, Paris was a fever dream of creativity. Nothing encapsulated this more than the Ballets Russes, a dance company founded in the French capital in 1909 by the Russian impresario caused a riot in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. By the 1920s, the productions were taking on surrealist stylings, and it is this era that Maison Balzac bottles in its Ballets Russesinspired collection, La Danse.

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