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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Manuel du cotillon.

OTHER TITLES
Cotillon, manuel de la danse

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Nouv. éd.
Paris, Ouachée [between 1890 and 1900]

SUMMARY
This late nineteenth-century manual is devoted to description of the popular parlor game, the German (also known as the cotillon). Every page of the manual has an advertisement for Au Paradis des Enfants in Paris, a shop that sold party accessories for the cotillon, including tambourines for the leader, ball cards, hair ornaments, decorations, roulette wheels, and paper lanterns.

NOTES
Folded broadside mounted on back cover: Polka, mazurke, schotisch et valse. Théories réunies et publiées par Eugéne Clément ... Paris, L'auteur [n.d.] illus. 44 1/2 x 40 cm.

SUBJECTS
German (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.

RELATED NAMES
Clément, Eugène.

MEDIUM
122 p. illus., col. plates. 18 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1757 .M3

DIGITAL ID
musdi 005 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.005

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