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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Quelques mots sur les danses modernes, par le vte de B. Saint-Laurent.

Brieux Saint-Laurent, vicomte de.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
4. éd.
Paris, Charles Douniol, 1863.

SUMMARY
This is a fourth edition of a book that acknowledges other antidance tracts including Boullay's Réforme de las danse des salons; Gustave Louis's Physiologie de l'opinion, and La Chrétienne de nos jours by l'Abbé Bautain. The author notes, with some disdain, that the waltz was introduced into France "par les impures du Directoire" (p. 8). The polka also receives criticism.

SUBJECTS
Dance--France.
Antidance Literature.

MEDIUM
67 p. 16 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1649 .B75 1863

DIGITAL ID
musdi 026 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.026

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