Editing Flames of Paris (section)

==Background==
''The Flames of Paris'' is a so-called "revolutionary" ballet which takes as its subject the [[French Revolution]], including in its scenario the storming of the Tuileries Palace by the revolutionary soldiers  and their victorious march on Paris. The plot is taken from the  [[Felix Gras]]'s Provençal language 1896 novel ''Li Rouge dou Miejour'', which is translated into French as ''Les Rouges du Midi (Reds of the South)''.

Although the ballet's setting is eighteenth-century France, it is a perfect illustration of Soviet ballet in the 1920s and 1930s, during which time there was a determined effort to find subjects in world history which reflected the more immediate situation in the [[Soviet Union]], and to show that the [[October Revolution]] was part of more universal movements and historical events.