The carnival of New Orleans

The first Shrove Tuesday in Louisiana, March 3rd, 1699, was a ceremony in honour of the explorer René Robert Cavelier, who had given the naming of " no Shrove Tuesday " to a strip of land situated in the delta of the Mississipi, to hundred of kilometres in the South of the New intended Orléans.
And it was only in 1827,when the Creole population make a pressure, that the celebrations of Shrove Tuesday were legalized. At the beginning of the XIXth century, demonstrations were very agitated and sprayed... The government wanted to annulate this demonstration when six young people of the Mississipi organized a parade in the evening of Shrove Tuesday (we are in 1857).
It was a success, and the tradition of the parade was definitively established.
Since 1870, the parades consist of tanks and brass bands,( " marching bands "). During the parades, the crowd receives necklaces, cups, doubloons and other objects thrown (lancé) by the persons dressed up on tanks.
Today, the carnival begins with a big ball, and during seven or eight weeks during which succeed one another shows,greedy weeks and the other demonstrations…
Carnavaliers wear necklaces green symbolizing the faith, purple, symbolizing the justice now, symbolizing the power.
For intéréssés We party all day long in streets, we drink and we dance.
Bourbon Street in particular, the tradition wants that the women show their bosoms or the buttocks to the men perched on balconies to obtain the necklaces which they present them. The opposite is also valid: the men also show their attributes to the women for the same reasons, and the homoes, similar.There is also competition of deguisés and other dogs contribute atypical …