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dance on the volcano

Narcis-Achille de Salvandi

Phraseologism: Dance on the volcano

Meaning: Noisy, carefree fun on the eve of severe social upheavals.

Origin: From French: "Nous dansons sur un volcan". Literally: "We are dancing on a volcano." The original source is the words of the French ambassador in Naples, Count Salvandi (1795-1856). On June 5, 1830, the Duke of Orleans (since July 30, 1830 - the French King Louis Philippe) arranged a ball in his Parisian palace of the Palais Royal in honor of his brother-in-law, King Charles X of Naples. Count Salvandi, who was at the ball, then uttered his famous words . Here is how he wrote about it in his memoirs: “When I passed the Duke of Orleans, who was lavished with compliments from all sides about the splendor of his celebration, I said to him a phrase that was picked up by all the newspapers the next day: “This is a completely Neapolitan holiday ... We are dancing on a volcano. "The words turned out to be prophetic: two months later, the king of Naples, Charles X, was overthrown during the revolution. It is partly analogous to the expressions -" Feast during the plague "and" Belshazzar's feast ".

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From the tragedy "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the words of Hamlet (act. 1, yavl. 4). Translation (1828) by Mikhail Pavlovich Vronchenko.

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