Editing Pictures at an Exhibition (section)

===7. Limoges. The Market (The Great News)===
Stasov's comment: "French women quarrelling violently in the market."

[[Limoges]] is a city in central France. Mussorgsky originally provided two paragraphs in French that described a marketplace discussion (the 'great news'), but subsequently crossed them out in the manuscript.

The movement is a [[scherzo]] in through-composed [[ternary form]] (ABA). A scurrying coda leads without a break into the next movement.

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