 In the course of a production of the ballet "La Naissance de Vénus" ("The Birth of Venus") in July 1817 she was noted for turning her back on the public, in an inconvenient attitude, but she was pardoned for this and quickly became Marseilles's favourite dancer.Two years later she moved to Brussels to join the ballet troupe formed there by Jean-Antoine Petipa with some of the dancers from Marseille.The "Almanach des spectacles" for 1820 stated