Of course you're funning, but this gives me the chance to refer to an incident described in Herbert Asbury's book, "The French Quarter", where a riot broke out in c. 1800 New Orleans and someone was killed because of a conflict over whether to do American or French contradanses at a public ball.

--Alan

On 3/28/16 4:22 AM, Michael Fuerst via Callers wrote:

The incident that actually ignited the French Revolution was a group of dancers at a public dance in Paris who insisted on a left allemande, despite the caller's pleas for a right allemande--much more mundane than the incident at Fort Sumter which ignited the United States' Civil War, or the assassination of Duke Ferdinand which ignited WWI.

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