Borie used to amuse himself, and the inhabitants of Nismes, by dancing what he called a farandole round the Guillotine in his legislative costume.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference

Borie used to amuse himself, and the inhabitants of Nismes, by dancing what he called a farandole round the Guillotine in his legislative costume. ”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795]

My OED also mentions the carmagnole as a peasant jacket, and additionally, from the encyclopedia: The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Wheels Within Wheels] Reference

And, hand clasping hand, they swung out into the farandole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

Everything appeared to be turning round in a mad farandole.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt] Reference

Inside the ballroom the orchestra was still playing the farandole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorraine A romance] Reference

"I'll show you whether I can dance the farandole, ma belle!" cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

The farandole bears similarities to the gavotte, jig, and tarantella.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog] Reference

The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog] Reference

They move with perfect balance and remarkable grace, racing through a figure like a farandole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Methuselah] Reference

A winding descent by little sheer hills, snakelike curving, in a repeating, involved rhythm like a farandole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean-Christophe Journey's End] Reference

It took the place of a master of ceremonies, our farandole, and acted as an excellent solvent of formalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals] Reference

And it was one kind of life after all -- a blessed release from the fever of that fierce farandole which we of the outer world call.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

Speed, and caught her hand, but she snatched her brown fingers away and danced off, laughing: "He who loves must follow, follow, follow the farandole!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

The crowds which had earlier in the evening gathered to gape at our big tent were now noisiest in the square, where the endless drone of the pipes intoned the farandole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

The second begins with an equally delightful chorus and farandole ( "La Farandola tutti consola"), followed by the beautiful Provençal folk-song, "Dolce una brezza, intorno olezza," which is full of local color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

Before we fairly had passed it, and while the farandole was dying out slowly, there crashed down upon us a thunderous outburst of song: as though an exceptionally large-lunged seraph were afloat immediately above us in the open regions of the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals] Reference

In saucy improvised couplets the troubadour called upon one and another to join the dancing, until before any one quite knew what was happening, the company in the lower hall was drawn into a winding lengthening line following the leaders in a sort of farandole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the Guild] Reference

On the whole, a long and narrow steamboat is not an especially good place for a farandole; but the leader of that one -- a young person from the Odéon, whose hair came down repeatedly but whose exceptionally high spirits never came down at all -- was not one of the sort whom difficulties deter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals] Reference

A number of prostitutes, dance the farandole around the guillotine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution - Volume 3] Reference

As for the farandole, I tire last of all -- and it is the biniou who cries out for mercy! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

Every now and then there would be a ronde or a farandole, ” the farandole forcing its way through the crowd, every one carrying a lantern and looking like a brilliant snake winding in and out.    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879]

As I remember it well, i’m not 4 anymore, “dansons la capucine” is a very short song you repeat ceaselessly while dancing the “farandole” and when the end of the song arrives you’re supposed to kneel down.    From Wordnik.com.  [big fish, little fish] Reference

"if I were not exempt I'd teach these Prussians to dance the farandole to my biniou!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

"Quelle farandole!" laughed Georges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorraine A romance] Reference