Les quadrilles de Jean-Étienne Despréaux, organisateur des divertissements et spectacles à la cour de Napoléon 1er

Launched to mark the bicentennial of the death of Jean-Étienne Despréaux (1748–1820)—dancer, dance master at the Royal Academy of Music, professor of dance and etiquette at the Paris Conservatory, and husband of Marie-Madeleine Guimard— this study of the manuscript of "Danse écrite, or La Terpsi-choro-graphie, or Nouvel Essay de Théorie de la danse" (1813) and of choreographed quadrilles for masked or formal balls during the reign of Napoleon I – works held in the Deshayes Collection at the National Library of France – aims to help fill a gap regarding a period (and an aesthetic) that remains little known, spanning from the French Revolution to the Romantic period.