It was In 1909 that Serge Dighilev first presented the „Ballets Russes” In Monte-Carlo, with performances of The sumptuous Works of Mikhail Fokine, the company’s choreographer. In 1911, the company settled in Monaco, under the patronage of the Princess, and the Principality became its home and playground, a creative laboratory in which a succession of exceptional works were conceived of and presented. This “Belle époque”, where risks were taken in equal proportion to the juxtaposition of artistic talents, ended with the beginnings of war in 1914.