page_title: Ys
section_title: Adaptations in the arts
hierarchical_section_title: Ys / Adaptations in the arts
caption_attribution_description: English: Édouard Lalo - Le roi d'Ys - poster of the first performance 1888 - Auguste François-Marie GorguetDeutsch: Édouard Lalo - Le roi d'Ys - Poster der Uraufführung von 1888 - Auguste François-Marie Gorguet
context_page_description: Ys, also spelled Is or Kêr-Is in Breton, and Ville d'Ys in French, is a mythical city on the coast of Brittany but later swallowed by the ocean. Most versions of the legend place the city in the Baie de Douarnenez.
context_section_description: Several famous artistic adaptations of the Ys legend appeared in the late 19th and early 20th century.
  E. V. Luminais' painting Flight of King Gradlon, depicting Gradlon's escape from Ys, scored a success at the Salon of 1884.
caption: Poster for Édouard Lalo's 1888 opera, Le roi d'Ys
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