Fashionable couples dancing la Sauteuse, a pair dance popular circa 1800. The man grips the woman around the waist, while jumping from foot to foot and spinning her around. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.

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