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This Contredanse called The Monaco , appears in the salons at the end of the eighteenth century and became popular at the end of the Revolution, during the Directoire . The basic rhythm of the music is probably inspired by a song called "À la Monaco (even older more than a century and a half on the period of the Revolution) spontaneously composed (as were many folk songs) by French soldiers to celebrate the victory of the French army in 1640, the Spaniards during the siege to the Fortress of Monaco - Today, the Principality of Monaco .
À Monaco, on the chasse, chasse Mr,
Mr Monaco À la chasse comme il faut.
Les demoiselles here it savent pas danser
On leur fait faire the chaine anglaise,
Les demoiselles here it savent pas danser
On leur fait faire les reins Cassese.
At Monaco we hunt, we hunt (in French hunt = chasser a word used as a name of a dance step) / M0naco the hunt as it takes. / The ladies (referring to the enemies) not know how to dance (the soldiers under enemy fire was said to danced ) / The English chain we do (referring to the chains of prisoners but also to each shape contra) , / The ladies who do not know how to dance / We make the kidneys do broken (as in, two-way).
The words are so full of references to the war that could also be understood as referring to the dance. Moreover existed for many centuries, the plains of Emilia and Parma, a dance called The Menace . Probably a mixture of cultural phenomena emerged in the late eighteenth century a contra (1) that was called "The Monaco".
Testimonials exist that was the only dance that Napoleon Bonaparte young Consul of the Republic, agreed to dance. In his capacity as General Bonaparte, he says, the whistling breeze on the face of war, especially when he saw the fleeing enemy. Or getting up in the morning. Later, Giuseppina Grassini and Girolamo Crescentini who had sung to him the air of Paisiello and Pergolesi, the Emperor jokingly asked "But I think this is worth the Monaco?"
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(1) CONTRADICTS The word indicates a dance where couples dance in front of comparing with other couples, while the ancient court dance rather we were dancing side by side and all copies in a row, line, or circle. The contra, inspired by country dances, was introduced to the French court during the regency of Catherine de Medici. The other courts of Europe welcomed her very slowly. The dance became popular in the countryside instead of English and Irish from where he returned to Paris during the eighteenth century as the Country Dance. He was admitted to the Russian imperial court until the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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This Contredanse named The Monaco , appears in the salons of the Executive , in the eighteenth century ended, when the bloody phase of the Revolution gave way to a racketeering scheme and hedonistic ... The rhythm of a song apparently inspired soldiers entitled "In Monaco, a oldest century and a half, sung by French troops in 1640 who successfully besieged the fortress of Monaco (a few decades ago fell into the hands of the English Emperor Charles V):
In Monaco, we hunt, we hunt,
In Monaco Hunting is as it should.
The young ladies who can not dance
They were made to the English channel,
The young ladies who can not dance
They did make broken his ribs.
The text is rather simple, one might say simplistic. This text is ironic that the "hunt" and "girl" are clear allusions to the enemies defeated and routed. "Dancing" is a term of military jargon: the soldiers "danced" under fire from the enemy ... The "English Channel" and "aching back" are phrases with double meaning, the first refers to both prisoners and chained to a dance figure, the second injury for the defeat as another dance figure ...
existed on the other hand, in communities of plains of Emilia and Parma, an ancient dance, The Ménaco which could have been introduced in France (as a century later was the Carmagnole) by seasonal workers in central Italy often work with the seasons in Provence and Haute-Provence . Blend of several cultural phenomena is thus born in the late eighteenth century, this dance, defined as the quadrille (1) who give birth in the early nineteenth century, which Quadrille The Monaco will for a time one of the principal figures ...
In a number of Memoirs of Napoleon's time (and especially in the very detailed submissions Pernon-Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes, written in collaboration with Balzac) there are specific references to the fact that the young Bonaparte accepted just dance (though rarely) that Monaco. On the other hand, the writings of the same kind of stress the general taste for the title song he whistled, it seems, in the heat of battle (especially when he saw the fleeing enemy) or morning getting ready for a day of fighting. Another time after Giuseppina Grassini and Girolamo Crescentini had sung to him the air of Paisiello and Pergolesi, he asked jokingly "But it's worth it though The Monaco"?
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(1) In the quadrille (which appeared at the end of the Renaissance) the couple alternately dance face to face and deal with other couples. DANCE (of course) instead required that the couple is side by side and couples dance in a line, or in the round file. The introduction to the court of Catherine de Medici of the quadrille was a real revolution culture. Other European courts followed very slowly. At the Court of the Russian quadrille come extremely late, in the early 19th century.
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