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ilUlW Ul MIC• • « •Touching on the caku walk, an English journal nays We liave heard a rood deal lately about this dance, which has even been called tile * tipsy cuke walk,’ but we did not know until one of the nlingers at the Nouveau Cirque was interviewed by a Paris paper that the origin of the dance was French. According to the latest account some of the French refugees from the Court of Marie Antoinette introduced the minuet into New Orleans, about the time of the Revolution, and it was the native imitation of the most fashionable dance in Europe that was afterwards tie-vcloncd into the cake walk.
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Lithgow Mercury
Lithgow, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Sep 11, 1903
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