Coppelia一词的含义

这里有很详细的年表，你可以自己看看。

1681
Women not ALLOWED in ballet until composer Jean Baptiste Lully forced the issue in the academy established by Louis XIV in 1681

1748
La Mettrie proposes the concept of Man as Machine

July 7,1796
Charles Didelo's ballet Flora and the Zephyr believed first to use dancing on pointe

1815
ETA Hoffman writes, Der Sandman

Sept. 17, 1821
Arthur St. Leon is born in Paris

March 12, 1832
La Sylphide - The FIRST of the Romantic Ballets

Dec. 16, 1834
Arthur St Leon gives his first performance as a violinist.

July 1835 St. Leon makes his debut as a dancer in Munich.

Feb. 21, 1836
Leo Delibes is born

1841
Giselle debuts

April 17, 1845
Arthur St Leon marries Neapolitan ballerina Fanny Cerrito, one of the top ballet stars of the day. Marriage lasts 6 years. It adds to his stature. Offe