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  • n  a lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures

  • Said Archbishop Joachim Ndayen of the Central African Republic: "We didn't come thousands of kilometers to dance a farandole.
  • Artist Matisse felt that the farandole, a sort of strumpets' ring-around-a-rosy popular at both music halls, would be a suitable subject for the grand staircase of a Moscow .
  • After the lights went up, Lacroix joined the crowds and danced the farandole, the heels-up peasant dance of Provence.

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