“At Their Doorstep” an evening with Charlotte Perret

About the Book:AT THEIR DOORSTEP presents remarkable, personal 1900s vintage street fair photographic postcards and family photographs from families and owners of the great game stands and steam-driven carousels, barkers, actors, carnival employees, circus and other performers that graced the street fairs of Paris in the early 20th century. Saved for sentimental reasons and captioned with insight and tact in moving, often amusing personal anecdotes, memories and reflections, this unwitting, historical memorabilia offers a unique, first-hand glimpse of the enormous audacity, adaptability and perseverance of the traditional, itinerant carnival entrepreneur. Interviewed in 1980, few carnies are still alive who experienced the old fairs or remember their vanishing, carnival heritage. No family photographs and few vintage fairground photopostcards have ever before been published.
For several generations and millions of Parisians, these exciting, extravagant, earthy, yet little documented neighborhood street fairs, were the most eagerly awaited events of the year. For the carnival folk, the road and traveling fairs were their way of life, places of hard work and discipline, a constant challenge to their skills and ingenuity, their entire existence. This undervalued slice of 1900s Parisian life is a beautiful, entertaining, one-of-a kind coffee table book for enthusiasts of history, entertainment, photography, folk and social history, and all things Parisian and French.
About the speaker:Charlotte I. Perret, lived in Geneva, Switzerland from 1966-1968 and in Paris from 1968-1981 where she raised a family, taught English to French business executives, and studied French history and literature. A graduate of the University of Chicago  with a BA in Russian Civilization and George Washington University in Washington DC with an MA in Museum Education, she is retired and currently divides her time between Sarasota, Florida and France. The interviews for this book were conducted in 1980, the year before leaving Paris for America. The interviews were translated into English by the author.
This event will be in English.
A light reception will follow the event.
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