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|ARDI GRAS had its inception in New Orleans in 1827 when a band of French students just returned from their studies in Paris gathered together in a Vieux Carre Cafe and made plans for a continuation of the great festival to which they had become accustomed while study- ing on the continent. » » » » » » » Paris had long held its annual Mardi Gras Carni- val as did other great Latin cities including Ven- ice and Rome — the custom being one of ancient origin. The celebration was a final round of pleasure and frolic before the advent of Ash Wednesday and Lent — the forty day period of sackcloth and ashes appointed by the Church im- mediately preceding the Resurrection of the Christ. It received the French name, Mardi Gras, which was the equivalent of Shrove Tuesday and meant Fat Tuesday so called because a fat ox was for- merly paraded through the streets on this last day before the holy season of Lent, » » » » And so while these young scapegraces sipped their wine and chattered volubly in the manner characteristic of the French, the foundation was laid for the most unique and beautiful celebration in America, the New Orleans Mardi Gras Carnival.
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HE first Mardi Gras celebration in New Or- leans was the direct result of the plans of these young students. While it naturally suffers by com- parison with the Carnival of today, it was filled with all the enthusiasm, the merriment, and general abandon which distinguishes the modern festival. These students attired themselves in the grotesque and comic costumes which had been theirs on the boulevards of Paris, and paraded the narrow streets of Orleans, singing, shouting, and calling to their fellows to join in the fun while yet there was time, for on the morrow a sentiment of prayer and pen- ance must come into their hearts. » » » » The city was not slow in taking up the celebration where it had been begun by this handful of young scamps. The usual order each year, however, at most, consisted of a parade of maskers, with music, street-dancing, and merry-making. » » » » Such a celebration seemed to be harmonious with the French disposition. It was the logical prepa- ration, the last whirl before the particularly trying period of Lent, which demanded so much of prayer and of fasting. » » » » » » »
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