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Show Claim Cakewalk Is French. Tho French havo found a reason for the popularity of tho Cakewalk In ParU. Tho thing is French! One of tho negroes nt tho Nouveau Cirque, interviewed in-terviewed by a Paris paper, says that ho origin of the dance was French. According to this latest account, some of tho French refugees from tho court of Mario Antoinette Introduced tho minuet Into New OrleanB about tho tlmo ot tho Revolution, and it was tho native Imitation of tho most fashionable fashion-able dance In Europe thnt was afterward after-ward developed Into tho cakewalk. |