Quelques mots sur les danses modernes
By: par le vte de B. Saint-Laurent.
Edition: 4. éd.
Publisher: Charles Douniol
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 67
Subjects: Dance -- France.; Antidance Literature.
Description: 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.
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