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Carmagnole   Listen
noun
Carmagnole  n.  
1.
A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. "They danced and yelled the carmagnole."
2.
A bombastic report from the French armies.





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"Carmagnole" Quotes from Famous Books



... and most of the other Whig leaders, welcomed the Revolution in France. And so did Pitt, too, for some time. "How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world," cried Fox, with the exaggeration of a man ready to dance the carmagnole, "and how much the best!" The dissension between a man who felt so passionately as Burke, and a man who spoke so impulsively as Charles Fox, lay in the very nature of things. Between Sheridan and Burke there ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various
... the People should have this toy; something to play with and to tease, round which to dance the mad Carmagnole and ...
— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... mild term for the embracing, the prancing, the Carmagnole-like ecstasy of the half-clad madmen running amuck in the almost unendurable joy of liberation. Barney knew that this condition of things would never do. All who bore commissions in the army were selected from the men. The highest in rank, ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan


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