18.2.12

Courir de Mardi Gras


I looked on John LaFleur’s Courtableau House site and one of the questions asked was if the courir de Mardi Gras created or started by the prairie Creoles or the prairie Cajuns.  That’s a good question being that Mardi Gras is here.  I plan on going to Church Point tomorrow to have some sort of Mardi Gras.  The riders come in around 2.  I wonder if a long time ago a Fontenot from Evangeline Parish went visit down south and saw something fantastic.  Brought the idea back to Mamou and they started doing the same thing.  Or maybe a Broussard from Church Point went to Mamou and brought the idea back home.  Or what if it was a French thing and both people knew about the celebration. 
"The world may never know" --  from old Tootsie Pop commercial 

Evangeline Parish French Creole Heritage

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