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Mardi Gras Napkin Rings
Mardi Gras , also called Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday, in
English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning
on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings
Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi
Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", reflecting the practice of the
last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of
the Lenten season.
Related popular practices are associated with Shrovetide
celebrations before the fasting and religious obligations
associated with the penitential season of Lent. In countries such
as England, Mardi Gras is also known as Shrove Tuesday, which
is derived from the word shrive, meaning "confess".
While not observed nationally throughout the United States, a
number of traditionally ethnic French cities and regions in the
country have notable celebrations. Mardi Gras arrived in North
America as a French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne
brothers, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le
Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV
sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of
Louisiane, which included what are now the U.S. states of
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and part of eastern Texas.
The expedition, led by Iberville, entered the mouth of the
Mississippi River on the evening of March 2, 1699 (new style),
Lundi Gras. They did not yet know it was the river explored and
claimed for France by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in
1683. The party proceeded upstream to a place on the east
bank about 60 miles downriver from where New Orleans is
today, and made camp. This was on March 3, 1699, Mardi Gras,
so in honour of this holiday, Iberville named the spot Point du
Mardi Gras (French: "Mardi Gras Point") and called the nearby
tributary Bayou Mardi Gras. Bienville went on to found the
settlement of Mobile, Alabama in 1702 as the first capital of
French Louisiana. In 1703 French settlers in Mobile established
the first organised Mardi Gras celebration tradition in what was
to become the United States. The first informal mystic society,
or krewe, was formed in Mobile in 1711, the Boeuf Gras Society.
By 1720, Biloxi had been made capital of Louisiana. The French
Mardi Gras customs had accompanied the colonists who settled
there.
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