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La Nouvelle-Bourgogne (Pecour / Feuillet, Paris 1707) - dedicated pamphlet for the birth of the Duc de Bretagne
Publisher: Louis-Guillaume Pecour (1653-1729), compositeur / Raoul-Auger Feuillet, notateur. Paris, 1707 - dedicated single-dance pamphlet engraved in Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation. 'La Nouvelle-Bourgogne, composee par PECOUR, danseur du Roy, pour la naissance de monseigneur le duc de Bretagne [Louis de France, ne le 8 janvier 1707], dediee a madame la duchesse de Bourgogne [Marie-Adelaide de Savoie], et mise en choregraphie par FEUILLET. 1707.' Source: BnF / Gallica scan (DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1707-Pecour-Nouvelle_(BNF).txt). Companion / predecessor publication to the VIe Recueil de Dances et de Contredanses pour l'Annee 1708 (LOC-1707-FEUILLET-RECUEIL) which incorporates the same choreography. The dedication celebrates the birth of Louis de France, duc de Bretagne (8 January 1707) — the short-lived first son of Louis, duc de Bourgogne and Marie-Adelaide de Savoie, grandson of the Grand Dauphin and great-grandson of Louis XIV. The dedicatory verse describes the dance as the 'noblest ornament' of the new-born Prince's celebrations and petitions Marie-Adelaide for her favourable reception ('Princesse, vous aurez plus d'une manieres / Le plus bel art que l'on puisse faire'). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: One of the four surviving Pecour dedicated single-dance pamphlets of the 1700-1707 period alongside LOC-1700-PECOUR-PAVANE (La Pavane des Saisons), LOC-1700-PECOUR-PASSEPIED (Le Passepied Nouveau), LOC-1701-PECOUR-AIMABLE (Aimable Vainqueur), and LOC-1702-PECOUR-ALLEMANDE (L'Allemande) — marking the high point of the Pecour/Feuillet dedicated-pamphlet tradition of dynastic celebration dances. The 1707 Nouvelle-Bourgogne pamphlet and the 1708 Feuillet VIe Recueil together constitute a two-publication attestation of the same choreography, consistent with the contemporary practice of bundling dedicated single-sheets into the subsequent annual recueil. Has_Step_Detail = No: choreography is engraved in Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation and not OCR-extractable; title-card and dedicatory verse are the extant OCR content.Year: 1707Family: pecour-nouvelleCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Louis-Guillaume Pecour (1653-1729), compositeur / Raoul-Auger Feuillet, notateur. Paris, 1707 - dedicated single-dance pamphlet engraved in Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation. 'La Nouvelle-Bourgogne, composee par PECOUR, danseur du Roy, pour la naissance de monseigneur le duc de Bretagne [Louis de France, ne le 8 janvier 1707], dediee a madame la duchesse de Bourgogne [Marie-Adelaide de Savoie], et mise en choregraphie par FEUILLET. 1707.' Source: BnF / Gallica scan (DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1707-Pecour-Nouvelle_(BNF).txt). Companion / predecessor publication to the VIe Recueil de Dances et de Contredanses pour l'Annee 1708 (LOC-1707-FEUILLET-RECUEIL) which incorporates the same choreography. The dedication celebrates the birth of Louis de France, duc de Bretagne (8 January 1707) — the short-lived first son of Louis, duc de Bourgogne and Marie-Adelaide de Savoie, grandson of the Grand Dauphin and great-grandson of Louis XIV. The dedicatory verse describes the dance as the 'noblest ornament' of the new-born Prince's celebrations and petitions Marie-Adelaide for her favourable reception ('Princesse, vous aurez plus d'une manieres / Le plus bel art que l'on puisse faire'). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: One of the four surviving Pecour dedicated single-dance pamphlets of the 1700-1707 period alongside LOC-1700-PECOUR-PAVANE (La Pavane des Saisons), LOC-1700-PECOUR-PASSEPIED (Le Passepied Nouveau), LOC-1701-PECOUR-AIMABLE (Aimable Vainqueur), and LOC-1702-PECOUR-ALLEMANDE (L'Allemande) — marking the high point of the Pecour/Feuillet dedicated-pamphlet tradition of dynastic celebration dances. The 1707 Nouvelle-Bourgogne pamphlet and the 1708 Feuillet VIe Recueil together constitute a two-publication attestation of the same choreography, consistent with the contemporary practice of bundling dedicated single-sheets into the subsequent annual recueil. Has_Step_Detail = No: choreography is engraved in Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation and not OCR-extractable; title-card and dedicatory verse are the extant OCR content. (1707). Imported from local collection.