Manuel du cotillon.
Contributors: Clément, Eugène.
Edition: Nouv. éd.
Publisher: Ouachée
Published: 1890
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: German (Dance) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Cotillon, manuel de la danse
Description: 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: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
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.