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L'Abbé Royal-Birthday Broadsides (Anthony L'Abbé, London 1717-1731 umbrella)
Publisher: Anthony L'Abbé (Antoine L'Abbé, French-trained London-based Beauchamp-Feuillet maître de danse, active in London c.1698-1735); engraved Beauchamp-Feuillet character-notation broadsides published annually for the British court's royal-birthday celebrations under George I and George II. Source files: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/{1717,1718,1725,1731}-Abbe-{Royal,Princess,Prince,Prince}_(BNF).txt — all are 0-4 lines OCR (the engraved choreography plates are not OCR-extractable; only title-card metadata is recoverable). Bundle covers four broadsides: (1) **1717 The Royal** — birthday dance for King George I (b.1660, accession 1714, age 57 in 1717), succeeded by L'Abbé as official birthday-dance composer after Mr. Isaac's final 1715 broadside (LOC-1715-ISAAC The Friendship); (2) **1718 The Princess** — birthday dance for Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales 1714-1727, later Queen Consort 1727-1737, wife of the future George II; (3) **1725 The Prince** — birthday dance for Frederick Louis, future Prince of Wales (1707-1751, in 1725 still Crown Prince of Hanover, only brought to England 1728 by his estranged father George II); the "Poor Fred" of the famous nursery-rhyme epitaph after his 1751 death from a tennis-ball injury 9y pre-George III 1760 accession; (4) **1731 The Prince** — birthday dance for Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (b.1721, age 10 in 1731; future Battle-of-Culloden 1746 commander, the "Butcher of Culloden"). Pattern parallels the existing LOC-1709-ISAAC umbrella + LOC-1710-ISAAC-BROADSIDES + LOC-1713-ISAAC-BROADSIDES disaggregation cohort. L'Abbé is the SECOND major English-language Beauchamp-Feuillet broadside author after Mr. Isaac, filling the 1716-1735 royal-birthday-broadside gap and establishing L'Abbé's parallel position to Isaac (broadsides 1707-1715, LOC-1709-ISAAC) and Pemberton (broadsides c.1711-1729, LOC-1711-PEMBERTON). The 1717 Royal is the EARLIEST L'Abbé attested broadside in this LOD corpus and marks the Hanoverian-succession transition of the English court-dance publication tradition from Stuart (Isaac under Anne) to Hanoverian (L'Abbé under George I/II).Year: 1717Family: abbe-broadsidesCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Anthony L'Abbé (Antoine L'Abbé, French-trained London-based Beauchamp-Feuillet maître de danse, active in London c.1698-1735); engraved Beauchamp-Feuillet character-notation broadsides published annually for the British court's royal-birthday celebrations under George I and George II. Source files: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/{1717,1718,1725,1731}-Abbe-{Royal,Princess,Prince,Prince}_(BNF).txt — all are 0-4 lines OCR (the engraved choreography plates are not OCR-extractable; only title-card metadata is recoverable). Bundle covers four broadsides: (1) **1717 The Royal** — birthday dance for King George I (b.1660, accession 1714, age 57 in 1717), succeeded by L'Abbé as official birthday-dance composer after Mr. Isaac's final 1715 broadside (LOC-1715-ISAAC The Friendship); (2) **1718 The Princess** — birthday dance for Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales 1714-1727, later Queen Consort 1727-1737, wife of the future George II; (3) **1725 The Prince** — birthday dance for Frederick Louis, future Prince of Wales (1707-1751, in 1725 still Crown Prince of Hanover, only brought to England 1728 by his estranged father George II); the "Poor Fred" of the famous nursery-rhyme epitaph after his 1751 death from a tennis-ball injury 9y pre-George III 1760 accession; (4) **1731 The Prince** — birthday dance for Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (b.1721, age 10 in 1731; future Battle-of-Culloden 1746 commander, the "Butcher of Culloden"). Pattern parallels the existing LOC-1709-ISAAC umbrella + LOC-1710-ISAAC-BROADSIDES + LOC-1713-ISAAC-BROADSIDES disaggregation cohort. L'Abbé is the SECOND major English-language Beauchamp-Feuillet broadside author after Mr. Isaac, filling the 1716-1735 royal-birthday-broadside gap and establishing L'Abbé's parallel position to Isaac (broadsides 1707-1715, LOC-1709-ISAAC) and Pemberton (broadsides c.1711-1729, LOC-1711-PEMBERTON). The 1717 Royal is the EARLIEST L'Abbé attested broadside in this LOD corpus and marks the Hanoverian-succession transition of the English court-dance publication tradition from Stuart (Isaac under Anne) to Hanoverian (L'Abbé under George I/II). (1717). Imported from local collection.