Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien
Liberetto by Gabrielle D'Annunzio
Music by Claude Debussy
Choreography by Mikhail Fokine
Costumes and Decor by Léon Baskt
Produced by Ida Rubinstein at the Chatelet Theater in Paris, May 22, 1911

April 24, 1911 -- Ida dances Scheherazade with the Ballet Russes in Monte Carlo.
May 8, 1911 -- Cardinal della Volpe authorizes a decree from the Congregation of the Papal Index by which all D'Annunzio's fictional and dramatic works were banned ... Monsieigneur Amette, Archbishop of Paris, (issued) a pastoral letter in which Le Martyre was specifically condemned as offensive to the Christian conscience, and all French Catholics were forbidden to attend performances on pain of excommunication. -- Michael De Cossart

Everything that is foreign in d'Annuncio took refuge in the accent of Madame Rubinstein ... She's a cross between Clomesnil and Maurice de Rothschild and her legs are sublime. -- Marcel Proust (1911) -- Vicki Woolf