sentences:  It is based on the story of the same name by Anatole France in his collection "L'Étui de nacre", which was in turn based on a 13th-century medieval legend by Gautier de Coincy, c. 1220.The role of Jean the juggler was popularised in the United States by the famous soprano, Mary Garden, which, according to some sources, horrified composer Massenet, who meant the role for a tenor.Garden's undertaking of the role was in the tradition of actresses of that era playing Peter Pan.