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(ji ZEL) [Guide] |
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'Giselle' is a ballet about an innocent maiden (Giselle) who falls in love with a nobleman disguised as a peasant (Albrecht), who is secretly engaged to another woman. When Giselle discovers this she goes mad and dies. She later saves Albrecht from wilis or faeries - betrothed women who were betrayed by their fiancés, before becoming a wili herself.
It has recently been used as the name of the protagonist in the Disney film 'Enchanted'.
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