Babar

Babar is a elephant of fiction, hero of the Littérature of childhood and youth created by Jean de Brunhoff.

Origin

It is the wife of Jean de Brunhoff which is at the origin of Babar . It has habit to tell stories with its two sons, Laurent and Mathieu. Among those, that of a small elephant which flees to escape the hunter and arrives in a city where it equips like a man. Returned at his place conveys some, it is crowned king of the elephants.

They like this account so much that they tell it with their father, artist painter. The idea to him then has just made of it a book illustrated for a family use. His/her brother Michel de Brunhoff and his brother-in-law Lucien Vogel, filled with enthusiasm, publish it in the Éditions of the Garden of the Modes under the title the History of Babar the small elephant (1931), at the time of the colonial Exposition.

The character is an amazing success with four million specimens sold before 1939. Rare fact, Babar meets also success in the United States. With the disappearance of his/her father, it is Laurent de Brunhoff which continues the adventures of Babar and for French television in 1969 adapts them.

Francis Poulenc carries out of it a setting in music for reciting and piano, orchestrated later by Jean Françaix.

History

After his/her mother was killed by a hunter, Babar arrives at Paris, where it binds friendship with the Old woman. It turns over finally to the kingdom of the elephants following the death of the king, who ate poisonous fungi. Babar is crowned king, Marie with her Céleste cousin, and founds the town of Célesteville. Babar introduces in the elephants a very French form of Western civilization (inter alia it makes them get dressed in Western costume).

Other characters

Celestial: the cousin and woman of Babar, it is queen
Pom, Flore, Alexandre and Isabelle: four children of Babar and Céleste
Zéphir: one of the most former friends of Babar (it is a monkey)
Arthur: the young cousin of Babar (little brother of Celestial)
the old woman: a friend (human) of Babar. It is it which taught the life downtown to him.
Cornélius: the oldest elephant and the adviser of Babar
Pompadour: the other to advise of Babar
Poutifour: the gardener of Babar
Rataxès: the king of the rhinoceroses
Basile: the adviser of Rataxès

Anecdotes

The French adventures of Babar start with the death of its mom killed by a hunter. This page is absent from American version.

Song of the elephants

It is about the old song of the mammoths. The old man Cornélius itself does not remember any more the significance of the words.

Patali Dirapata, Cromda Cromda Ripalo, Pata Pata, KB KB KB ,
Bokoro Dipoulito, Trimmed Trimmed Pepino, Pata pata, KB KB KB ,
Emanated Karassoli, Loucra Loucra Nonponto, Pata Pata, KB KB KB.

the king Babar

The BaBar experiment

BaBar is also the name of an experiment of physics of the particles located at laboratory SLAC in California and using the accelerator (linear then circular) " PEP II". The origin of the name of this experiment comes from what the collision electron-positron in PEP II creates a pair particle-antiparticle of mesons B. the antiparticles being noted with a bar, the pair is noted BBbar, which made think of the famous elephant.

Site of the experiment

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