[436] The Gavotte theme from the Overture to _Ottone_ was played all over England and on all kinds of instruments, "even on the pan's-pipes of the perambulating jugglers." It was found even at the end of the eighteenth century as a French vaudeville air. (see the _Anthologie françoise ou Chansons choisies_, published by Monnet, in 1765, Vol. I, p. 286). The March from _Scipio_, as also that from _Rinaldo_, served during half a century for the Parade of the Life Guards. The minuets and overtures from _Arianna_ and Berenice had a long popularity. One sees in the English novels of the time (especially in Fielding's _Tom Jones_) to what an extent Handel's music had permeated English country life, even from the small country squires to the county magnates, so absolutely cut off as they were from _all_ artistic influences. [437] Paul Marie Masson has noticed that about the date of 1716, in a volume of _Recueil d'airs serieux et à boire_. (Bibl. Nat. Vm. 549), an _Aria del Signor Inden_ (sic), "_air ajouté au ballet de l'Europe Galante_." The _Meslanges de musique latine, françoise et italienne_ of Ballard (in 1728), contains amongst the Italian airs _Arie de Signor Endel_ (p. 61). All the airs of the _Chasse du cerf_ by Sere de Rieux (1734) are Handel airs adapted to French words. An article by Michel Brenet, _La librairie musicale en France de 1653 à 1790, d'après les registres de priviléges_ (_Sammelbände I.M.G._, 1907) gives a series of French Editions of Handel from 1736, 1739, 1749, 1751, 1765. In 1736 and in 1743 in _Concerts Spirituels_ some of his airs and his _Concerti Grossi_ were given (Brenet: _Les Concerts en France sous l'ancien régime_, 1900). A number of his airs were arranged for the flute by Blavet in his three _Receuils de pièces, petits airs, brunettes, minuets, etc., accommodés pour les flutes traversières, violins, etc._, which appeared between 1740 and 1750. Handel was so well known in Paris that they sold his portrait there in 1739. (See a tradesman's advertisement in the _Mercure de France_, June, 1739, Vol. II, page 1384.)