Courir de Mardi Gras
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The Courir de Mardi Gras is a traditional Mardi Gras event held in many Cajun and Creole communities of French Louisiana on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Courir de Mardi Gras is Louisiana French f
Masked riders in Mamou
Medieval French peasants enjoying a meal
Chasing a chicken through a muddy field
Capitane and a courir disguised as a rougarou
Mardi Gras
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Mardi Gras, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is the final day of Carnival ; it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", referring to it
Celebrations in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Mardi Gras in Dakar, Senegal
Mardi Gras in Marseille, France
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