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Name of Object:

Folies Rambuteau. New quartet from the Auvergne.

Location:

Paris, France

Holding Institution:

National Library of France

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Date of Object:

1885

Author:

Anonymous

Inventory Number:

ENTDN-1(LEVY,Emile)-FT6

Description:

The 19th century saw mass rural to urban migration, particularly to Paris, for largely economic reasons. These migrants often settled with people from their region, who offered them work in specific fields. Thus, those from the Savoy region became specialised in chimney-sweeping, those from the Auvergne were water-carriers or coal-merchants, those from Brittany were domestic workers, and so on. Regional solidarity therefore ensured the survival of regional culture. In this image, for example, a quartet from the Auvergne are advertising their performance in a café-concert in traditional dress. Music from the Auvergne was the origin of the Parisian bal-musette (a dance accompanied by accordion music).

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

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Citation of this web page:

"Folies Rambuteau. New quartet from the Auvergne." in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;fr;49;en;N

Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: FR 049

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