# A Roman what?

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**Created:** [October 31, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-roman-what/992365 "2023-10-31T13:35:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-roman-what/992365/22 "2023-11-02T14:26:41Z")

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869), from New Orleans, the toast of Paris. I found the link in the Wikipedia article on his piano piece “[Le Bananier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Bananier_(Gottschalk)),” which made the curious connection with Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances from _[Prince Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/borodins-prince-igor-overture-beautiful-but-fraught/959566)_.

The author is not to blame, but the website editor who scanned the text from a book into digital format and didn’t copy-edit thoroughly:

[http://thompsonian.info/gottschalk-legend-offergeld.html](http://thompsonian.info/gottschalk-legend-offergeld.html)

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