Cafougnette

Cafougnette is a hero of the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais, equivalent of Tartarin to Tarascon created by Jules Mousseron, Poète of Picardy language and underground worker.

In 1899, Cafougnette appears semi-officially under the feather of Jules Mousseron in the song Zeph' in Madagascar in 1896, and for the first time in a Monolog entitled “ Cafougnette in Paris ”. Consequently, he will become the hero of an about sixty tasty stories after a small turning like recurring character in the humorous review Galibot appeared with Denain of July 1900 in the spring 1902, always written by Mousseron - except with rare exceptions - which was editor association. More than one century was passed… and he always saw.

From which does the name come? Is this a pure fabrication resulting from the fertile imagination of Jules Mousseron of a word which sang well? Does it come from misfiring which indicated in the mining vocabulary of North a bad coal vein? An unorganized person also said cafouillette in the area of Denain. Some affirm that Cafougnette would have been imported by minors Piedmontese come at the beginning of the 19th century and would be the French version of cafoni which appoints a peasant bumpkin and whose matter is a cafognetta. Perhaps it acts a little all that, this amusing sonority and the image which it returns! At all events, if one can gloser of the hours on the origin of the name, there does not remain about it less the original creation of Jules Mousseron. The character does not appear in any writing former to the work itself of the author.

The stories which Jules Mousseron told were inspired by mishaps arrived at friends. Not to put them in the embarrassment and to avoid annoying mockeries to them, it replaced their name by that of Cafougnette! Thus all the problems of the world fell down on this poor devil of Cafougnette. Thanks to that, this anti-hero asserted himself on the eyes of all because one recognized in him the man met at the market, the pub, the Ducasse or the corner of the peignon.

Cafougnette does not survive only through these good stories. Denaisiens materialized it in the Années 1950 in Géant. Each Easter Monday, under the sun, the rain or in the cold, it carries out the carnival of which he is the king and heats the heart of the spectators. Cafougnette is now the hero of a cartoon adapted by Frédérick Maslanka (scenario writer and back-back grandson of Jules Mousseron) and Rémy Mabesoone (draftsman).

Jacques Bonnaffé put in scene and played the texts of Jules Mousseron, “Cafougnette and the procession”. These texts are compiled on the disc ““the End of the world””, the spectacle with fact the object of a DVD: “Cafougnette last procession”.

Source

Ch' Blog ED Cafougnette, blog devoted to Cafougnette
Cafougnette in line
Jules Mousseron

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