'''Antoine de Beaulieu''' (died 1663) was a French noble, dancer, and ballet master of the Swedish court from 1637 to 1663 and is considered to have introduced ballet in Sweden.
== Career == Antoine de Beaulieu was employed in Sweden after a recommendation to the Queen Dowager, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, by the French ambassador. Ballet was considered as a good exercise for boys of the nobility to move gracefully during riding and fencing. In 1638, Beaulieu performed a dramatic ballet with poems for Queen Christina by the order of Eleonora Catherine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken. The participants consisted of boys and men of the nobility, among them Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie and the future Charles X Gustav of Sweden. He made about 20 ballets until 1654. At the coronation of Christina in 1651, he performed in a coronation ballet.
== See also == * Anne Chabanceau de La Barre * Antoine Bournonville * Louis Gallodier
== References == * Sven Åke Heed: ''Ny svensk teaterhistoria. Teater före 1800'' Gidlunds förlag (2007) {{in lang|sv}} * Leif Jonsson, Ann-Marie Nilsson, Greger Andersson: ''Musiken i Sverige. Från forntiden till stormaktstidens slut 1720'' ("Music in Sweden. From Antiquity to the end of the Great power era 1720") {{in lang|sv}}
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