Around one hundred dances are described in the notebook; most of these are well-known and those in the early pages (from the 1900s) were highly popular at the turn of the nineteenth century. The Quadrille français, for example, dates back to the eighteenth century and was danced in approximately the form that Revuz describes from about 1830. Some of the dances are rather inaccurately attributed (Breton bourrées, danced in 1926, for example). Later, nationalistic Swiss themes emerge and, between the wars, we find a series of 1830s dances before modern inventions took over; the last phase in the notebook is more traditional again but eclectic: these dances were recorded by or atributed to Mlle. Metz rather than Revuz himself. In the late 1930s, folk dances from Scandinavia, France and England appear in quick succession; the birth of Eurodance.
It is convenient to divide the dances into chronological groups as follows:
The Eugene Revuz Dance notebook 