dancing-dogs

Updated: July 11, 2025

Point de conscriptions!" and during the desolating æra of the revolution, their favourite cry presented an exact picture of the character of the nation of the same nation, which, in these dark days of continual horror, could yet amuse, itself by an exhibition of dancing-dogs, under the blood-dropping stage of the guillotine; their cry was then, "Vive la Mort!"

Sir Archibald Alison - Travels in France during the years 1814-15 : Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.