It is doubtful if the popular dances of to-day, great as is their following, will live as long as some of the old. dances which they have supplanted, says an exchange. The exceedingly graceful minuet, for example. It is not quite dead yet, as a matter of fact, for it survives in many of the ceremonial celebrations intended to picture times past. But, in any case, it had an active life of more than two and a half centuries. The minuet was danced by Louis XJV.. Nt Versailles to Lully's music; in 10-k!, it at once became the most popular dance of Courts and society, and it was vigorous and in high favour down, to Iho beginning oil the IS tli century.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 14
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