Principes des Nouvelles Allemandes / Nouvelles Contredanses / Recueil des Figures de la Contredanse (3 vol., Mr. Dubois de l'Opera de Paris, Paris 1769)

Dance manual/reference by Mr. Dubois (first name not attested in extant copies), 'Maitre a Danser et Compositeur des Ballets de l'Academie Royale de Musique' / Paris 1769. Biblioteca Nacional de Espana catalog, three companion volumes held together. Source files (all BNE Madrid scans, calligraphic engraved text, heavy OCR corruption on script-plates): DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1769-Dubois-Principes_(BNE).txt (102 lines; 12 numbered Allemande Figures I-XII with pas-level hand-sequence descriptions), 1769-Dubois-Contredanses_(BNE).txt (137 lines; 4 named ball-contredanses by Mr. Dubois de l'Opera: La Danoise / Nouvelle Amazone / Nouvelle Minette / La Gratieuse, each with an Inscription page + figure-engraving plate + Description), 1769-Dubois-Recueil_(BNE).txt (16 lines; plate-only — no extractable figure descriptions). STRUCTURE - Principes: 12 Allemande Figures numbered Premiere through Douzieme, each a complete passe-and-hand-sequence tableau for couple-Allemande-a-deux: F1 hand-presentation and passes under arm; F2 passe de la Dame sous le bras; F3 passe du Cavalier avec reprise de main; F4 demi-tour sur le pied gauche + bras par-dessous; F5 passe-reprise with bras derriere; F6 bras-derriere-epaule with demi-tour; F7 retour/recroiser with full-turn sequence; F8 (omitted in BNE — plate only); F9 (plate only); F10 dixieme-figure: donner la main gauche + tour a droite + bras gauche derriere + bras droit par-dessus la tete de la Dame + re-prise main + continuation of enlacement through the 4 sections; F11 (plate only); F12 douzieme-figure-final: tour entier autour de la salle + lacher bras + reprise finale. Each Figure description explicitly tracks which hand the Cavalier gives and at what moment, passes sous and par-dessus the bras/epaule/tete, with the two partners facing / dos-a-dos / side-by-side throughout; structural cousin to Guillaume 1769's 12 Tableaux (LOC-1769-GUILLAUME H-REN-ALL-F0017..F0028) but distinct in the hand-sequence detail — where Guillaume names each tableau by its position ('Rosette', 'Dos-a-Dos', 'Main-sur-l'Epaule'), Dubois numbers them Figure I-XII and gives the pas-accurate verbal script for each. STRUCTURE - Contredanses: (1) La Danoise (inscription: 'NOUVELLE DANOISE / par Mr. Dubois de l'Opera' + Description: 2-couple longways-set, figured passes with first-and-second couples interchanging); (2) La Nouvelle Amazone (engraved-plate title 'NOUVELLE AMAZONE' + descriptive passes); (3) La Nouvelle Minette (title 'NOUVELLE MINETTE'); (4) La Gratieuse (inscription: 'LA GRATIEUSE / par Mr. Dubois de l'Opera / Maitre du Roi et du Dauphin' + Description: 3-section ballroom contredanza). STRUCTURE - Recueil: plate-only remainder (OCR-TXT only 5 identifiable meta-lines). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Dubois 1769 is the RIVAL PUBLICATION to Guillaume 1769 — both are Paris 1769 systematic Allemande-a-deux codifications with 12 numbered tableaux/figures, competing for the late-1760s Allemande-pedagogy market in the same year. Dubois is the Opera-lineage author (dances for Academie Royale de Musique); Guillaume is the almanach-compiler who pairs the Allemande-pedagogy with Landrin/La Hante contredanses. Together LOC-1769-DUBOIS + LOC-1769-GUILLAUME establish 1769 as the PEAK codification year of the Allemande-a-deux as a 12-tableau/figure repertoire before Brives 1779 continued the tradition (LOC-1779-BRIVES H-REN-ALL-F0014 Allemande a Deux). ROSETTA STONE LINKS: 12 Dubois Figures → 12 Guillaume Tableaux (cross-syllabus direct Rosetta) + 4 new H-BAR-CD canonicals for the named ball-contredanses + 12 new H-REN-ALL canonicals (F0029..F0040 Dubois Figures) named 'Dubois 1769 Figure I' through 'Dubois 1769 Figure XII'. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (Principes has pas-level hand-sequences and passes; Contredanses formation-narrative; Recueil plate-only). (1769). Imported from local collection.