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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 355 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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. 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. 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. The See also:original first See also:verse began: " See also:Monsieur See also:Veto (i.e. See also:Louis XVI.) avait promis D'etre fidele a sa patrie." and each verse ends with the refrain: " Vive le son, vive le son, Dansons la Carmagnole, Vive le son Du See also:Canon." The words were constantly altered and added to during the Terror and later; thus the well-known lines, " Madame Veto avait promis De faire egorger tout Paris On lui coupa la the," &c., were added after the See also:execution of See also:Marie Antoinette. Played in See also:double See also:time the tune was a favourite See also:march in the Revolutionary armies, until it was forbidden by See also:Napoleon, on becoming First See also:Consul.

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