Hello,  I am doing a research on dances written to celebrate the
Franco-Russian Alliance.  One dance, "La Franco-Russe", with music
by [Felix] Chaudoir is supposed to have been produced as a 15-1/2"
Polyphon disc, number 1824.  I would like to locate a copy of this
disc to be able to hear the music.  I would appreciate if you could
post this message to your list to see if a collector owns this disc
or knows of a library or museum where it can be found.

Thank you,
Dominique Bourassa
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
dominique.bourassa@yale.edu.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

 [ Dominique Bourassa is Catalog Librarian for French Language at
 [ Sterling Memorial Library.  She has published articles on military
 [ music in Quebec and on dance history, and recently published a
 [ paper, "Unpacking Eugène Giraudet's Library: Dance, Books, and
 [ International Relations in Fin-de-Siècle Paris."  E. Giraudet
 [ created the dances and F. Chaudoir composed the music for them.
 [
 [ These Polyphon discs of music composed by Chaudoir are listed at
 [ Bill Wineburgh's site, http://antiquemusicbox.us/poly19.pdf :
 [
 [   5588 La Franco-Russe, Dance / Chaudoir
 [   5569 La Parisienne, Song / Chaudoir
 [
 [ Other compositions by Chaudoir for dancing (which might also be
 [ played on a barrel organ) are
 [
 [   La Galopade, Dance
 [   La Moulinette, Dance
 [
 [ -- Robbie