The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carmagnole \Car`ma`gnole"\, n. [F.]
-
A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution.
They danced and yelled the carmagnole.
--Compton Reade. A bombastic report from the French armies.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A popular or Red Republican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. 2 (context archaic English) A bombastic report from the French armies.
Wikipedia
La Carmagnole is the title of a French song created and made popular during the French Revolution, based on a tune and a wild dance that accompanied it of the same name that may have also been brought into France by the Piedmontese. It originated as a song in August 1792 and was successively added to in 1830, 1848, 1863–64, and 1882-83. The authors are not known. The title comes from the name of the short jacket worn by working-class militant sans-culottes adopted from the Piedmontese peasant costume whose name derives from the town of Carmagnola.
This song is triumphantly sarcastic about the fates of the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and those who support the French monarchy.
Usage examples of "carmagnole".
The procession, now in full blast, demands the carmagnole, and the Convention consents.
Here was one man not trying to emulate the Revolutionary prototype of the sans-culotte —no red cap or huge mustache or workman's carmagnole jacket for him.
Nor, of course, was he wearing now either the red cap or the carmagnole .
Radcliffe was reminded that the carmagnole was a workman's jacket as well as a song, and the jacket had become part of the Revolutionary uniform.
Then, they elevated into the vacant chair a young woman from the crowd to be carried as the Goddess of Liberty, and then swelling and overflowing out into the adjacent streets, and along the river's bank, and over the bridge, the Carmagnole absorbed them every one and whirled them away.
In the raw brain of an over excited workman politics find their way only in the shape of rough hewn, highly-colored imagery, such as is furnished by the Marseillaise, the Carmagnole, and the Ça ira.
Any Parisian opening his windows in the morning may find his house surrounded by a company of carmagnoles, if he has not the indispensable certificate in his pocket.
Citizen Chaumette's Goddess of Reason by all means--Henriot conceded that the idea was a good one--but the goddess merely as a figure-head: around her a procession of unfrocked and apostate priests, typifying the destruction of ancient hierarchy, mules carrying loads of sacred vessels, the spoils of ten thousand churches of France, and ballet girls in bacchanalian robes, dancing the Carmagnole around the new deity.