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If Mademoiselle instead of flattering Jos�phine, the Cracovienne, flattered some pretty gentleman--who knows?

Cracovienne′, a graceful Polish dance, resembling the mazourka: the music for such; Crac′owe, a long-toed boot fashionable under Richard II.

And yet—do you not hear them now, coming down the broad, granite-paved, moonlit street, the light that was made for lovers glancing on bayonet and sword soon to be red with brothers’ blood, their brave young hearts already lifted up with the triumph of battles to come, and the trumpets waking the midnight stillness with the gay notes of the Cracovienne?—

I saw Fanny Elssler dance the cracovienne and the cachucha, and it is a memory which will linger with me always.

Kochanowski dances the Cracovienne to perfection.