Manuel du cotillon
Contributors: Paradis des Enfants (Firm); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Edition: Nouv. éd.
Publisher: Ouachée
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: German (Dance); Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Cotillon :
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 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: Advertisements with prices for items sold at Paradis des Enfants on p. 128-161.