Iron County Record | 1903-07-17 | Page 3 | Claim Cakewalk is French

Claim Cakewalk la French. Tho French have found a reason for the popularity of Uwi cakewnlk in Paris. The thing Is French! Otv of the negroes at the Nouveau Clrqu interviewed in-terviewed by a Paris paper, sayr hat the origin of the donee was Fioiich. According to this latest account, some of the French refugees front the court of Marie Antoinette Introduced tho minuet Into New Orleans about the time of the Revolution, and it was the native Imitation of the mont fashion-ablo fashion-ablo dance In Europe that wns after ward developed Into the cakowalk.