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See also:CARMAGNOLE (from See also:Carmagnola, the See also:town in See also:Italy)
, a word first applied to a Piedmontese See also:peasant See also:costume, well known in the See also:south of See also:France, and brought to See also:Paris by the revolutionaries
of See also:Marseilles in 1798
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It consisted of a See also:short skirted coat with rows of See also:metal buttons, a tricoloured waistcoat and red cap, and became the popular See also:dress of the See also:Jacobins
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The name was then given to the famous revolutionary See also:song, composed in 1792, the tune of which, and the See also:wild See also:dance which accompanied it, may have also been brought into France by the Piedmontese
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The See also:original first See also:verse began:
" See also:Monsieur See also:Veto (i.e
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