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MADAM PARISOTT'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Parisott's," "Whiskey Barrel." American, Hornpipe. The melody appears under the title "Whiskey Barrel" in George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels, volume I (Baltimore, 1839), though appears in mid-nineteenth century collections as "Parisott Hornpipe" or "Madam Parisott's Hornpipe." Madame Parisot was a famous stage dancer of around the turn of the 19th century. In the first chapter of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, he writes:

For she could not only sing like a lark, or a Mrs. Billington, and dance like Hillisberg or Parisot, and embroider beautifully, and spell as well as a Dixonary itself, but she had such a kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous heart of her own, as won the love of everybody who came near her...

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