This play, along with Laure Choisy’s La Place de Molard en 1830 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Impresario (Der Schauspieldirektor), was performed during Marcelle Moynier’s first puppet show. She would later become the director of the Théâtre des Marionnettes de Génève. Three typewritten copies of Une visite romantique (A romantic visit) are kept in the archives of the theatre, all three having been greatly annotated. Laure Choisy, who wrote the text along with many other plays performed with Marcelle Moynier’s puppets, was also a musician and composer. This most likely explains why she chose to write about George Sand’s visit to Franz Liszt during the latter’s stay in Geneva, in 1835, and to deal with the motif of George Sand’s sexual ambiguity, which Adolphe Pictet wrote about in his fantastic tale Une course à Chamounix (A race in Chamonix; Paris: Benjamin Duprat, 1838). Laure Choisy also composed the music for the verses sung by George Sand’s and Franz Liszt’s characters.

George Sand arrives in Geneva, where Liszt and his lover Marie de Flavigny, countess d’Agoult, live. Their house is empty when she arrives, and a letter by Liszt lets her know that they have gone to Chamonix. One of the couple’s friends, adjuvant Pictet, lets her in, but he believes her to be a man because of her travel clothes. Liszt and Marie come back. George Sand dresses as a woman and they all laugh at the adjuvant’s mistake. The play ends with a song in which they make fun of Genevan narrow-mindedness.