VAVAL

Here is the third day!
Ash Wednesday!

Dressed in black and white, we were ready to follow the Carnival King’s car all around Fort-de-France.

But who is this King: Vaval?

A satirical dummy.

He is carried through the streets leading the festival parade. Keeping secret until the Last Day!

One thing you must know about this carnival is that it was born during the colonization, from the mixed culture of Europe and Africa, and that french elections are in May! … Not surprising Vaval was about politic then.

And guess what? thiS year, He was a Gallic!

Wearing a red and blue skirt, nails done, the candidate Francois Fillon’s eyebrow.
On his belt: a monkey.
On his shield: the French national anthem « Aux armes citoyens» followed by the Creole sentence: «Nou pa Gaulois», - Translate by «To arms, citizens!» «We are not Gallic» -

Also representing a womanizer and a robber, Vaval this year had a lot of symbols about the recent politics events in France.

How to forget about that?
How to purify souls?

By burning him!

And it will takes part on the Fort-de-France seafront - Just under our Simon’s hotel Balcony! - with the «weepy» women, crying for his soul to be pure again!