sentences:  The work was first performed by the Comédie-Italienne at the Palace of Versailles on 30 December 1779 and subsequently at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris on 3 January 1780.It was also revived in 1782 in a version reduced to three acts.The libretto is by Michel-Jean Sedaine, after the early medievalist Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye's "Les amours du bon vieux tems", a modernised version of the Old French "chantefable" "Aucassin et Nicolette".