Paris Carnival: the festival of joy and exuberance Feast Day or Festival in Paris

2012-02-01

15e edition: Sunday, February 19 2012
A festive walk, plenty of performances, a musical parade... the Paris Carnival is a fun and festive event which has been immensely popular since its revival in 1997.
After a 50 year period without a carnival in the French capital, the age old tradition was brought back, the highlight being dimanche Gras (fat Sunday), when a great parade winds its way across Paris from Place Gambetta to the Hôtel de Ville. The cow at the head of the procession evokes the Promenade du Bœuf-Gras, the other name for the Paris Carnival in days gone by.
The Paris Carnival is above all a popular festival which unites people from all walks of life, locals, visitors, actors, artists, jugglers, musicians, street performers and so on.
The Paris Carnival is a carnival that occurs in the city of Paris in France. It happens in the city immediately after the Feast of Fools and is been celebrated it the city since sixteenth century and earlier. Labor plays an important role in the festivities and celebrations of the carnival. To someone’s surprise the Paris carnival is also a feast of the Paris police.
And awesome the carnival was considered to be incomplete in the nineteenth century along with the butchers, launderers, traders, and students as it became a must for the survival of Carnival. And diversity is essential and must element of every Carnival that occurred throughout the globe. Till the early-twentieth century, the Paris Carnival lasted till one day, Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
The Carnaval de Paris was also remained hindered for certain time during the 1952 and 1997. Even at present time some Parisians even do not know that the carnival has been renovated. They are also ignorant of the liveliness at the carnival having distinct stereotypes that occurs every year and some traditional carnival jokes. The Carnaval de Paris has also inspired great artists.
At the street activity levels there two types of things occurs at the Carnival de Paris that is the walk of masks, and the processions. The walk of masks includes people in disguise as well as in huge numbers, and the curious come to see them, at a given location at a given time. Other than the street activities, processions are another important part of the Carnival. Among all the processions one of the most important procession is the fat day that occurs on the last days of the Carnival. This five day activity there ends at on the Mardi Gras. Twenty-one days after Mardi Gras is the Thursday of Mid-Lent, the another processional program during the Paris Carnival and the important one. Mid-Lent is also called the Feast of Laundresses, for it is the feast day of their parade, and of their queens, and of the Queen of Laundresses.
In Modern time the carnival restated in 1997 by the Les Fumantes de Pantruches and Droit à la Culture groups. They are a quite group that organizes several events every year including Carnaval de Paris and the Carnaval des Femmes de Paris. This 2011 event presently is at the planning stages. For 2002, a Carnaval is also organized in Paris by the MACAQ – the Movement for the Cultural and Artistic Liveliness of the Quarter.