He became valet de chambre to Catherine de' Medici, and subsequently served under Mary Stuart, Charles IX, and Henri III (Yates 1947,p.238).

He is credited with choreographing the Balet des Polonais, Le Balet Comique de la Reine in 1581, and may have collaborated on the production of Paradis D'Amour, in 1572. When he died in 1587, he was again in Catherine de'Medici's service and had been made Ecuyer and seigneur des Landes.

It is possible that Beaujoyeulx's ingenuity and interest in all the arts had made him indispensable to the social and artistic life of the court under the aforementioned monarchs (MacClintock, p.11)

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