I may as well confess that one of the ballets in _Henry VIII_ came from the finale of an opera-comique in one act.

This work was finished and ready to go to rehearsal when the whole thing was stopped because I had the audacity to assert to Nestor Roqueplan, the director of Favart Hall, that Mozart's _Le Nozze di Figaro_ was a masterpiece.
Meyerbeer, even more than anyone, tried not to lose his ideas and the study of their transformation is extremely interesting.

One day Nuitter, the archivist at the Opera, learned of an important sale of manuscripts in Berlin.

He attended the sale and brought back a lot of Meyerbeer's rough drafts which included studies for a _Faust_ that the author never finished.

These fragments give no idea what the piece would have been.
We see Faust and Mephistopheles walking in Hell.