A couple dancing energetically in a ballroom, Napoleonic era, France. La Manie de la Danse (madness of dance) by Philibert Louis Debucourt, 1809. Illustration from Paul Lacroix's Directoire, Consulat et Empire, (Directory, Consulate and Empire), Paris, 1884.

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