Pots-Pourris Francois -- Numbered Recueils de Contredanses Francaises dediees a la Reine (Landrin, Paris c.1760)

Dance manual/reference by Nicolas Landrin (Maitre a danser de la Reine, fl. 1760-1780), Paris c.1760. Multi-Recueil serial publication: 17 numbered Pots-Pourris Francois engraved separately and sold individually or as a bound set. Source: Library of Dance ABBYY-OCR'd Bibliotheque nationale de France scans -- 1760c-Landrin-N_(BNF).txt for N in 1, 3-17 (file 2 missing from the OCR set; 16 of 17 numbered Recueils OCR-extant). Each Recueil contains 1-2 Pots-Pourris Francois of Contredanse-Francaise-character, each Pot-Pourri composed of 4-6 named Airs typically including: 'La Reine pour le Grand Rond', 'La Plissue / La Plissate pour la Main', 'La Casandre / La Cassandre pour les Dames en rond', 'L'Allemande pour les Allemandes', 'La Charmante pour le Moulinet des Cavaliers', 'La Cle pour le Moulinet des Dames', 'La Comme il vous plaira pour les Allemandes d'apres', 'L'Ancienne Maitre pour le rond des Dames', 'La Sauvardise pour le rond des Cavaliers', 'L'Ecossoise pour le rond des 8 Figures', 'La Tournette pour les Allemandes' etc. -- drawing on the contemporary Parisian Cotillon / Contredanse-Francoise repertoire. STANDARD STRUCTURE per Recueil: (1) Engraved title-page 'POTPOURRI FRANCOIS / DE 5 [ou 6] CONTREDANSES / Dette de Madame de la / Composee de [N°] Airs differents / dediee a / LA REINE / Avec rondeau [suivi] des differents Airs de Pecour / et Composement des Trois ouvrages de Mr. Pinette'; (2) numbered measure-of-music score on engraved music-staff; (3) prose 'Explication des Pots-Pourris' giving figure-by-figure ballroom directions (en avant et en arriere; chasse-croise et rigaudon; allemande aux dames; moulinet par 4; rond des cavaliers / des dames; chaine anglaise; promenade demi-tour; queue du chat; balance; pirouette sur place; piecouvert / pas covert; etc.). FORMAT: 'Contrepartie pour les autres' convention pervasive (each figure danced by half the set, then repeated as Contrepartie by the other half). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: the most-extensive single mid-18c Parisian Cotillon-into-Contredanse-Francaise serial publication, spanning 17 numbered Recueils and demonstrating the vocabulary stabilisation of the 'salon-French Contredanse' form on the eve of its Cellarius-era 19c codification. Predates Landrin's larger 1768 Potpourri Francois (LOC-1760-LANDRIN, Cousineau Pere imprint) and is contemporary with the LOC-1768-LONGMAN London Cotillons and the LOC-1769-GUILLAUME Almanach Dansant Allemandes / Contredanses. Documents the late-1750s / early-1760s Parisian transition from Cotillon (8-couple square format) to Contredanse Francoise (4-couple square format with named figure progressions) at the cusp of the late-Louis-XV ballroom revolution. ROSETTA CONFIRMATIONS: La Reine, L'Ecossoise, La Cassandre, Le Tambourin, La Colerne all match canonical Landrin attestations from LOC-1760-LANDRIN (H-REG-COT-F0894 La Reine, F0895 L'Ecossoise, F0896 La Cassandre, F0897 Le Tambourin, H-REN-ALL-F0009 La Colerne). Has_Step_Detail = Partial (figure-prose recoverable for many Airs; engraved music-staves and dotted-note rhythm above each Air not OCR-recoverable; per-step Foot-Position / Rise-and-Fall / CBM / Sway not present in source -- this is figure-narrative pedagogy, not bar-by-bar technical notation). (1760). Imported from local collection.