While showing the influence of Mozart, Chabrier and Messager, it contains a wide range of orchestral colours with occasional glances at jazz of the 1930s.

[2] Les aventures du roi Pausole was first performed at the Bouffes Parisiens on 12 December 1930, and ran for nearly 500 nights.

[4] The Grand Théâtre de Genève set up a production by Robert Sandoz in 2012, conducted by Claude Schnitzler.

Honegger's score has been described as "out of the ordinary - fresh, biting, wide-ranging with a ballet and a tiny cantata, a bubbling Rossinian septet for women's voices, parodies of operetta styles (Second Empire and Belle Epoque), jazz..."[6] Along with the creators of principal roles, the original cast included Simone Simon, Suzy Delair and Edwige Feuillère as queens.

[6] In 1933 Alexis Granowsky made a film version of the Louÿs original with André Berley and Josette Day.

During a ballet given for the women of the harem, Aline falls for Mirabelle, a girl dressed as a boy dancer Prince Charming.

Amid comings and goings from the different hotel rooms, there follow the entry of the Spanish chocolate, an air for Taxis, and a telephone duet.

Christine Barbaux (La Blanche Aline), Brigitte Fournier (Thiérette), Rachel Yakar (Diane), Bernadette Antoine (Mirabelle), Michel Sénéchal (Taxis), Reinaldo Macias (Giglio), Gabriel Bacquier (Le Roi Pausole), Charles Ossola (Le Métayer), Atelier Philharmonique Suisse, Madrigalistes de Bâle.