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Nouveau Traité de la Civilité qui se pratique en France parmi les honnêtes gens (Antoine de Courtin, Paris 1671; Bavarian State Library copy of an early pirated edition digitized via Google Books)
Publisher: Antoine de Courtin (1622-1685), conseiller d'état / multiple reprints through the 1670s-1720s (authorized edition: Hélie Josset, Paris 1671; the Bavarian State Library/Google scan used here is of a later Continental reprint ['Nouvelle édition', ~1680s-90s]). Source: Library of Dance ABBYY-OCR'd Google Books scan (1671-Courtin-Nouveau_(Goog).pdf + ABBYY TXT 844 lines). FOUNDATIONAL FRENCH CIVILITY MANUAL. Eighteen chapters laying out 17th-c. honnête-gens etiquette norms: conversation, audience with a grand, church comportment, walking-with-and-saluting a grand, accompanying a grand's joy or affliction, propreté in general, table manners, visiting etiquette, gaming, BALL-ETIQUETTE (Chapter XIII 'Ce qui s'observe au bal', pp. 140-143, covering invitations to dance, refusals, bow/curtsy protocol, floor precedence, and decorum during/after the dance), instrument-playing and singing, travel/carriage/horseback/hunting, letter-writing, how to receive honors, and warnings against excessive servility. HAS NO ENUMERATED DANCES — the ball-etiquette chapter treats ballroom conduct (entrée, invitation, refus, révérences, rangs, sortie) rather than specific choreographies. REGISTERED FOR CORPUS COMPLETENESS to bracket the 17th-c. civility-genre lineage (Della Casa's 1558 Galateo / Erasmus's 1530 De Civilitate Morum Puerilium at one end; Taubert 1706/1717 at the other; Courtin the canonical French-language mid-term). Parallels LOC-1706-TAUBERT-KURTZER and LOC-1712-WEAVER in being a ballroom-relevant treatise without per-figure data. Widely pirated, reprinted, and translated (Dutch, German, Italian) throughout the 17th-18th centuries; was the single most-influential etiquette manual in pre-Revolution France.Year: 1671Family: courtinCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Antoine de Courtin (1622-1685), conseiller d'état / multiple reprints through the 1670s-1720s (authorized edition: Hélie Josset, Paris 1671; the Bavarian State Library/Google scan used here is of a later Continental reprint ['Nouvelle édition', ~1680s-90s]). Source: Library of Dance ABBYY-OCR'd Google Books scan (1671-Courtin-Nouveau_(Goog).pdf + ABBYY TXT 844 lines). FOUNDATIONAL FRENCH CIVILITY MANUAL. Eighteen chapters laying out 17th-c. honnête-gens etiquette norms: conversation, audience with a grand, church comportment, walking-with-and-saluting a grand, accompanying a grand's joy or affliction, propreté in general, table manners, visiting etiquette, gaming, BALL-ETIQUETTE (Chapter XIII 'Ce qui s'observe au bal', pp. 140-143, covering invitations to dance, refusals, bow/curtsy protocol, floor precedence, and decorum during/after the dance), instrument-playing and singing, travel/carriage/horseback/hunting, letter-writing, how to receive honors, and warnings against excessive servility. HAS NO ENUMERATED DANCES — the ball-etiquette chapter treats ballroom conduct (entrée, invitation, refus, révérences, rangs, sortie) rather than specific choreographies. REGISTERED FOR CORPUS COMPLETENESS to bracket the 17th-c. civility-genre lineage (Della Casa's 1558 Galateo / Erasmus's 1530 De Civilitate Morum Puerilium at one end; Taubert 1706/1717 at the other; Courtin the canonical French-language mid-term). Parallels LOC-1706-TAUBERT-KURTZER and LOC-1712-WEAVER in being a ballroom-relevant treatise without per-figure data. Widely pirated, reprinted, and translated (Dutch, German, Italian) throughout the 17th-18th centuries; was the single most-influential etiquette manual in pre-Revolution France. (1671). Imported from local collection.