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Show Claim Cakewalk Is French. Tho French Havo found a reason for the popularity of the cakewalk In Pnrls. Tho thing Is French! Ono of the negroes at the Nouveau Clrqu Interviewed In-terviewed by a Paris paper, soyr hat the origin ot the danco was Flinch. According to this latest account, somo of the French refugees from the court of Mario Antoinette Introduced tho minuet Into Now Orleans about the tlmo of the Revolution, and It was tho natlvo Imitation of the moMt fashionable fashion-able danco In Europo that was after ward developed Into the cakewalk. |