Bastille Day New York

gothamite · #1 Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 7:14 PM**

xzmattzx · #2 Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 7:58 PM**

Nice pictures. I had a couple friends that went to this. Interesting how Canadian and Quebec flags are at a couple booths. I know that there's some French/Francophone culture in Canada, but there are plenty of other days to celebrate those places.

mike474 · #3 Posted: **Jul 17, 2012, 10:35 PM**

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Interesting how Canadian and Quebec flags are at a couple booths. I know that there's some French/Francophone culture in Canada, but there are plenty of other days to celebrate those places.

yea like June 24... but I imagine it's an attractive demographic for Tourisme Québec

mrnyc · #4 Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 5:19 PM**

johnny hallyday is banned from america - bien sur we had elvis lol!

mthq · #5 Posted: **Jul 21, 2012, 12:03 AM**

Johnny Hallyday is just now coming to New York??? what took him so long?/

jeremai · #6 Posted: **Jul 27, 2012, 2:56 PM**

Never knew about this... looks like a fun event. Thanks for sharing.

mousquet · #7 Posted: **Jul 27, 2012, 4:24 PM**

Wonderful! damn, I'm sorry for being late. Thank you for sharing.

The French community in NYC, that's a lot of people I think, seems to do a good job in that so welcoming city.

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Originally Posted by xzmattzx

Nice pictures. I had a couple friends that went to this. Interesting how Canadian and Quebec flags are at a couple booths. I know that there's some French/Francophone culture in Canada, but there are plenty of other days to celebrate those places.

Bah, if nothing political spoils the party, then it's good to welcome the Canadians in there. I guess mike474 is right, their presence might be about promoting a business, taking advantage of our linguistic proximity, which is fine for us all.

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johnny hallyday is banned from america - bien sur we had elvis lol!

Good, boycott him. Enough of cheesy Johnny.
What's his actual name by the way? Jean-Philippe Smet.

Meet that cool comic creature instead. It's Marsupilami, originally from Belgium, a classic in the French-speaking world.

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Thanks again, New York!

gothamite · #8 Posted: **Jul 31, 2012, 4:49 PM**

^but who's the other character with the red hair and suit with yellow buttons? Everyone was clamoring to have their pictures taken with both of them!

Nantais · #9 Posted: **Jul 31, 2012, 5:37 PM**

It's Spirou ! One of the greatest character of the Franco-belgian comics culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirou_et_Fantasio

mousquet · #10 Posted: **Jul 31, 2012, 6:59 PM**

Yep. He often wears his bellboy suit, but he and his friend journalist Fantasio are actually 2 adventurers. Marsupilami was originally a friend of theirs. He's not exactly a pet, he's some kind of exotic creature friendly to good people and harsh to haters. There's also Spip, that little squirrel always stuck to Spirou.

These, like Tintin and Astérix, are legendary characters from the early Belgian comics.

Still from Belgium and closer to American readers, these are well known too:

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The Bluecoats (French: Les Tuniques Bleues)

[...] The series [...] follows two United States cavalrymen through a series of battles and adventures. The first album of the series was published in 1970. The series' name, Les Tuniques Bleues, literally "the bluecoats", refers to the Northern army during the American Civil War. One English edition of the comic was published in 2004 as "The Blue Tunics: The Blues in Black and White" by Reney Editions. Since then Publisher Cinebook has started to print the comics in English as "The Bluecoats" releasing Robertson Prison in 2008. It is one of the best-selling series in French-language comics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Tuniques_Bleues

Acajack · #11 Posted: **Aug 1, 2012, 3:01 AM**

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Yep. He often wears his bellboy suit, but he and his friend journalist Fantasio are actually 2 adventurers. Marsupilami was originally a friend of theirs. He's not exactly a pet, he's some kind of exotic creature friendly to good people and harsh to haters. There's also Spip, that little squirrel always stuck to Spirou.

These, like Tintin and Astérix, are legendary characters from the early Belgian comics.

Although most of what the world knows as ''French'' comics are actually Belgian as you point out (Tintin, Spirou, Gaston La Gaffe, Lucky Luke, and of course the Smurfs), I believe that Astérix is the exception in that it is wholly French, but still made in the same genre (franco-belge) of course.

SHiRO · #12 Posted: **Aug 2, 2012, 8:40 PM**

Nice pics! Thanks! Very interesting.