After the terrors of the French Revolution, Paris witnessed an explosion in waltzing and a general “frenzy to celebrate.”

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Doctors considered that simply by observing a waltz, the “nervous sympathies” of a young woman could be activated, placing her in a state of contagious mania in which she risked sacrificing her mental health.

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