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All The World's In Paris
"All the World's in Paris" is an 1814 comedy song by the British performer Joseph Grimaldi. It formed part of the ''Harlequin Whittington'' Boxing Day pantomime first performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London. Sometimes also known as "All the Word's at Paris" it mocked the fashionable British upper-class tourists who had flocked to the French capital Paris following the War of the Sixth Coalition, defeat of Napoleon. Grimaldi dressed up as an exaggerated dandy of the Regency era, Regency style as well as traditional clown make-up. A pirated, parody, parodic play on the song was released under the title "Boney's Return to Paris" in 1815 following Napoleon's escape from Elba during the Hundred Days, before his defeat at Battle of Waterloo, Waterloo. The original song continued to have relevance during the subsequent post-Waterloo Allied Occupation of France under the Duke of Wellington, as the British elite continued to travel to Paris in great numbers. It was the ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The World's In Paris
"All the World's in Paris" is an 1814 comedy song by the British performer Joseph Grimaldi. It formed part of the ''Harlequin Whittington'' Boxing Day pantomime first performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London. Sometimes also known as "All the Word's at Paris" it mocked the fashionable British upper-class tourists who had flocked to the French capital Paris following the War of the Sixth Coalition, defeat of Napoleon. Grimaldi dressed up as an exaggerated dandy of the Regency era, Regency style as well as traditional clown make-up. A pirated, parody, parodic play on the song was released under the title "Boney's Return to Paris" in 1815 following Napoleon's escape from Elba during the Hundred Days, before his defeat at Battle of Waterloo, Waterloo. The original song continued to have relevance during the subsequent post-Waterloo Allied Occupation of France under the Duke of Wellington, as the British elite continued to travel to Paris in great numbers. It was the ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |