By 1650 he had received an appointment as the private ballet tutor of Louis XIV of France and thereafter worked with the king daily for approximately two decades. In 1660 Beauchamps performed personally in the ballet of Cavalli's
Xerse at the celebration of the royal wedding of Louis XIV to the Spanish Princess, Maria Theresa (the Infanta).
Also as a teenager Beauchamps began to perform for his cousin, Moliere, who produced a number of comedie-ballets. The Moliere troupe operated initially under the name of the Illustre Theatre, and later as the Troupe de Monsieur. After extensive research, recent experts have failed to determine the full extent of Beauchamps's earliest involvement with the Moliere productions. It is certain that he danced in nine of the Moliere-Lully premieres and received top billing in the livres (libretto) on multiple occasions. John S. Powell suggested in Music and Letters that it was a very young Beauchamps who composed the music for Moliere's royal production of Les Facheux in the 1650s. It has been established with reasonable certainty that by 1659 the relationship between the dancer and the playwright assumed an increasingly formal and professional nature.
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