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Platée is opera (Ballet Bouffon) by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

This is the story of the gods playing a practical joke on Platee, a frog princess of particular ugliness, who is convinced that everything that comes near her pond is madly in love with her. To teach her a lesson, Jupiter himself pretends to be in love with Platee. The marriage is planned but come, of course, to nothing, with Juno breaking up the wedding party and sending the humiliated Platee back into her swamp.

The opera was written for the celebrations of the wedding in March 1745 of the Dauphin of France, the son of the reigning French king, Louis XV, to the Spanish princess Maria Theresa, who, according to contemporary sources, was no beauty herself. Instead of getting the composer into deep water, the entertainment at Versailles seems to have been well received, and Rameau was appointed a few month later to the position of Composer of the King's Chamber Music with a sizable annual pension.

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 '''Platée''' is opera (Ballet Bouffon) by [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]].
+This is the story of the gods playing a practical joke on Platee, a frog princess of particular ugliness, who is convinced that everything that comes near her pond is madly in love with her.  To teach her a lesson, Jupiter himself pretends to be in love with Platee. The marriage is planned but come, of course, to nothing, with Juno breaking up the wedding party and sending the humiliated Platee back into her swamp.
+The opera was written for the celebrations of the wedding in March 1745 of the Dauphin of France, the son of the reigning French king, Louis XV, to the Spanish princess Maria Theresa, who, according to contemporary sources, was no beauty herself.  Instead of getting the composer into deep water, the entertainment at Versailles seems to have been well received, and Rameau was appointed a few month later to the position of Composer of the King's Chamber Music with a sizable annual pension.
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