[5] The music was arranged by Polish flautist Ernest Müller (Kravinsky), known as "Miller", preceded by the overture to Démophon by Johann Christoph Vogel.

[6][7] Gardel, a competent musician, personally selected melodies to be incorporated into the score, while the original sections of Psyche's music were written by Ernest Miller.

[8] The main roles throughout the 1790s included Psyche, Mlle Miller; Venus, Clotilde; Flora, Miss Pérignon; Apollo, Pierre Gardel; and Love, Auguste Vestris.

A dressing table with its accessories was set on one side, while mirrors and paintings celebrating Love's victories decorated the hall.

Pierre Gardel, seizing on this theme, took over the subject a few years after Dauberval's ballet titled Psyché was staged at the Bordeaux theatre on 16 February 1788.

At first my refusals were constant; because I knew that M. Noverre and Auberval had both given proofs of their genius on this same subject, and I feared the comparisons which could only turn to my disadvantage; however I read the Programs of these two masters and I realized that they had no resemblance, and that consequently they could not be compared.