Gymnastique des demoiselles à l'usage des Écoles normales, des lycées et collèges de jeunes filles, des pensions et des écoles. Ouvrage indispensable aux aspirantes aux brevets de capacité. Cinquième édition ornée de 140 figures et de 7 planches
Gymnastique des demoiselles is a French gymnastics manual for girls by Napoléon Laisné, issued in Paris by Picard Bernheim for teacher-training schools, lycées, colleges and boarding schools, with the record's 1660 date evidently an error. Its line-drawn figures show a dressed young woman performing apparatus exercises such as hanging from a overhead bar, balancing a wooden pole and swinging clubs, giving a designer clear, economical poses of mid-century women's dress and posture.
