Claude Debussy's Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, which has had several choreographic interpretations, was inspired by a Stéphane Mallarmé poem in which he describes the impressions made on him by a François Boucher painting. Gabriel Fauré's suite Pelléas et Mélisande has its origins in the incidental music for Maurice Maeterlinck's drama of the same name about the forbidden love of the two protagonists. Ravel's music for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé transports listeners to the world of classical mythology. Here again the focus is on love, this time between the two foundlings Daphnis and Chloé, orphans raised by shepherds in a pastoral idyll.