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On March 2, 1699, French-Canadian explorer Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville arrived at a plot of ground 60 miles directly south of New Orleans, and named it "Pointe du Mardi Gras" when his men realized it was the eve of the festive holiday. Bienville also established "Fort Louis de la Louisiane" (which is now Mobile) in 1702. Emulating what they had seen in Paris, the students wore colorful costumes and danced in the streets. Ten years later, their revelry inspired a grand transition. In 1837, the first Mardi Gras parade took place in New Orleans. To this day, Mardi Gras is marked in many places, particularly New Orleans, by a grand procession and parade with floats. The first use of the words "Mardi Gras" in Louisiana was in 1699, when Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, named a bend in the river "Pointe du Mardi Gras," in honor of that year's Fat Tuesday. However, Carnival was rarely celebrated in the new colony—the early people of the Big Easy found life in the mud-caked huts and thatched roofs of New Emulating what they had seen in Paris, the students wore colorful costumes and danced in the streets. Ten years later, their revelry inspired a grand transition. In 1837, the first Mardi Gras parade took place in New Orleans. To this day, Mardi Gras is marked in many places, particularly New Orleans, by a grand procession and parade with floats. Participation in Mardi Gras had become a coping mechanism — and a civic duty. With a play on the French phrase meaning “such is life,” the Krewe du Vieux’s theme,C’est Levee, referenced levee failures in the wake of the storm (the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers made for a ripe target). Delighted throngs of mostly local spectators beamed It has been two years since the traditional Mardi Gras parades and the crowds they attract have flooded the streets of New Orleans. After missing in-person Mardi Gras traditions last year, the New Orleans community is ready to jump back into celebrating the way they know how; with beads, bands, floats, and food. Emulating what they had seen in Paris, the students wore colorful costumes and danced in the streets. Ten years later, their revelry inspired a grand transition. In 1837, the first Mardi Gras parade took place in New Orleans. To this day, Mardi Gras is marked in many places, particularly New Orleans, by a grand procession and parade with floats. In 1718, the French had established the city of New Orleans near the land known as “Pointe du Mardi Gras”. By the 1730s, the parades, lavish dinners and masquerade balls of Mardis Gras became an annual tradition in the city. The Mardis Gras festivities continued in New Orleans until the Spanish took control of the city in 1762. Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday, which takes place March 4, marks the party’s climax and the end of Carnival Season on the Gulf Coast. The conclusion falls the day before Ash Wednesday and is seen as a final day of feasting and revelry before the solemnity of Lent. See how to celebrate Mardi Gras in Augusta. It's a celebration that gives millions the opportunity to over-indulge before Lent, a 40-day season of prayer and fasting observed by Christians. Mardi Gras is the last and biggest day of the celebration. The carnival celebrations began on Jan. 6, which is the Epiphany or "Twelfth Night." A historical marker on Royal Street commemorates the first Mardi Gras parade in Mobile on Feb. 25, 1868. Before the Civil War, Mardi Gras-style parades were held on New Year's Eve. New Year’s Eve, 1830. Mobile’s place in the history of Mardi Gras, also called Carnival, would be solidified when a cotton broker named Michael Krafft unwittingly created the first mystic New Orleans Mardi Gras 1830 (2 F) New Orleans Mardi Gras 1831 (4 F) New Orleans Mardi Gras 1832 (1 F) New Orleans Mardi Gras 1833 (3 F) New Year’s Eve, 1830. Mobile’s place in the history of Mardi Gras, also called Carnival, would be solidified when a cotton broker named Michael Krafft unwittingly created the first mystic It wasn't just the overall tradition itself that moved from Mobile to New Orleans. Mobile continued, and continues to influence how Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans, Mobile's Cowbellion de Rakin Society was the first formally organized and masked mystic society in the United States to celebrate with a parade in 1830. Although many people associate it just with New Orleans, there are Mardi Gras celebrations all over the world. What most people don’t know is that the U.S. celebration of Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama. Tuesday, March 4, 2014 is Fat Tuesday the start of the Mardi Gras season. According to the U.S. Library of Congress, the [] In 1827, a group of students in New Orleans set the stage for what would become an enduring Mardi Gras tradition. Emulating what they had seen in Paris, the students wore colorful costumes and danced in the streets. Ten years later, their revelry inspired a grand transition. In 1837, the first Mardi Gras parade took place in New Orleans. Masks have long been a part of Mardi Gras tradition. Here, an artist paints masks of famous politicians in preparation for the upcoming celebrations. 6 1931. Keystone-France // Getty Images. Some say the first Mardi Gras was celebrated in Mobile in 1830 (though, as CNN noted, the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce argued it was 1703, a year after the city’s founding). As the story goes About a century after Iberville named Mardi Gras Point, the Spanish built a fort near the site that was the scene of battles in both the War of 1812 and the Civil War. About two centuries after
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