The notebook is hardbound octavo, 205 pages, with covers of deeply embossed card; the pattern is shown on the banner image at the top of this page. On the inside cover, it is dated 15 XII 06 and signed by Revuz, with the address rue de Hesse 16, the address to which he moved his dance school in 1906. The fresh start seems to have prompted him to take his first steps towards creating this record of thirty years’ teaching. Below the original address is printed his third and lasting address, rue de Rhone 61; Revuz seems to have been confident enough of staying put that he had a rubber stamp made with the new address.

The first entry in the book is the list of figures for the Quadrille francais, meticulously written out; it is easy to imagine that this was a carefully-considered choice since this was already an enduring and highly popular dance in 1906. The last entry in the notebook, either choreographed by or attributed to a Mlle. Metz, describes a dance from Dalarna (Sweden) and ends “finish, according to desire, with a Hambo waltz”.

The whole notebook is written in a stylish script and always with a fountain pen. In some loose insertions in the notebook, Revuz used a ballpoint pen, not widely available until the 1950s. By that time, Revuz had stopped teaching, so that one can guess these insertions are notes for performances of the group Ceux de Genève; his main involvement in dance after the closure of his school seems to have been with them.