Guinguette

A guinguette is a popular Cabaret of Banlieue Paris ienne also officiating like restaurant and, often, place of Bal. Some affirm that the term comes from the guinguet , indicating small a Vin white sourness, but of others claim that the guinguette is at the origin of the wine known as guinguet .

Geographical location

The majority are on the edges of the the Seine and the Marne, and some are in prolongation to the entry of Rouen. Some guinguettes were however far away from the rivers. There were guinguettes per hundreds until Nogent-sur-Seine, place where the edges of the Seine changed the most.

Died of the tradition?

The guinguettes were an eminent subject of Peinture, end 19th century and first half of 20th. The French cinema of the interval wars also put in scene the guinguettes as for Nogent, Eldorado of Sunday of Marcel Carné of 1929 and especially celebrates it film the Beautiful Team of Julien Duvivier of 1936 with Charles Vanel and Jean Gabin singing his success When one walks at the edge of water . In the years 1960, they pass in the field of the Nostalgie.

Then, the whole world looked at television and forgot the guinguettes, according to the dialogist Michel Audiard in the mouth of professional in one of its many films, giving him a emblematic counterpart of its decoctions.

Since the years 1980, one attends a certain revival, in particular in the loops of the Marne: Creteil, Champigny-sur-Marne, Joinville-le-Pont, Nogent-sur-Marne, Perreux. The guinguettes constitute one of attractions of the annual demonstration organized by the Département of the Valley-of-Marne, the Festival of Oh!

An association, Culture guinguettes, are devoted to the conservation of the inheritance and the tradition.

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