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His copy of Nuove Inventioni di Balli may be seen in the British Museum, with large plates illustrating how to "gettare la gamba," that is, in the words of Chaucer, "with his legges casten to and fro." Prince Henry was skilful in these matters.
To be strictly accurate, Madame Balli was born in Smyrna, of Greek blood; but Paris can show no purer type of Parisian, and she has never willingly passed a day out of France.
As the most interesting of it centers in and radiates from certain personalities whom I had the good fortune to meet and to know as well as their days and mine would permit, it has seemed to me that the surest way of vivifying any account of the work itself is to make its pivot the central figure of the story. So I will begin with Madame Balli.
Madame Balli has black eyes and hair, a white skin, a classic profile, and a smile of singular sweetness and charm. Until the war came she was far too absorbed in the delights of the world the Paris world, which has more votaries than all the capitals of all the world the changing fashions and her social popularity, to have heard so much as a murmur of the serious tides of her nature.
He wears the uniform of a Red Cross officer, and is associated with several of Madame Balli's oeuvres. A few days later Madame Balli took me to another hospital Hôpital Militaire Villemin where she gives a concert once a week.
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