Article on masked balls and the cancan

“….A propos masked balls, and the Cancan, which is their indispensable seasoning, there are still some virtuous journals who let out loud cries about the abomination of the affliction of the depravity of the century. They find the cancan more immoral than lust, venality, corruption, and all the political and private turpitudes with which our eyes are edified every day….”