Recueil de contredances mises en chorégraphie
Subtitle: d'une maniére si aisée, que toutes personnes peuvent facilement les apprendre, sans le secours d'aucun maître et même sans avoir en aucune connoissance de la chorégraphie
By: par Mr. Feuillet ...
Publisher: Chez l'auteur rüe de Bussi Faubourg Saint Germain à la cour imperiale pres la ruë des Mauvais Garçons
Published: 1706
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Country dancing; Handbooks, manuals; Early works to 1800; Country-dances (Music); Dance notation
Description: This is the first manual to be published in France that describes English country dances. Called contredanses (also spelled contredance) in France. The manual describes motions for the feet and arms, how the dance corresponds to the music, and rules for performance. Additionally, floor plans and music for ten dances are given. Feuillet also suggests appropriate steps. Performed as a series of figures by a column of men facing a column of women, the English country dance was a popular ballroom dance during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 1710, this manual was translated into English as For the further improvement of dancing, by English dancer, dancing master and writer John Essex.
Notes: Engraved throughout.

Contains music.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Microfilm.

Bound in contemporary mottled calf, with maroon gilt-stamped title label mounted on spine.