DANCES.
Homer speaks of a new dance invented by Dajdalus for Ariadue. Theseus was immoderately fond of the reel, or fandango, in which the arms move with the legs ; the Normans revived, rather than invented, round dances in the twelfth century ; the Bohemians invented the redowa ; the Poles, the polka (first danced in England in 1840) ; the Hungarians, the mazurka and galop. The cotillon owes its origin to the courtly Due de Lousan, who, for his audacity in contracting a clandestine marriage with the " Grande Mademoiselle," was imprisoned for ten years by Louis XIV. To the now popular dance many figures were added by Marie Antoinette, and some more by the Empress Eugenic. Under the Second Empire tho post of Conductor of Cotillons at the balls held &t the Tuileries was one of considerable social importance, and was long held by one of the late emperor's equerries, the Marquis de Caux.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4012, 10 April 1882, Page 2
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151DANCES. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4012, 10 April 1882, Page 2
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