nini-patte-en-l'air

Updated: May 9, 2025

How it brought it all back to me the other day when I found in The Gypsy the direct but belated offspring of The Savoy a poem to Nini-patte-en-l'air. And does anybody now know or care who Nini-patte-en-l'air was? Or who La Goulue and the rest? Would anybody now go a step to see the Quadrille were any graceless acrobats left to dance it?

Elizabeth Robins Pennell - Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties