Guignol and Brindas
(version française ici)
Guignol's pages at Guignolsland : Guignol et Brindas // Gnafron (& Brindas) // Le grenier de Guignol // Guignol and Brindas -
2008 was Guignol's bicentenary & the Musée-Théâtre Guignol opened in Brindas
Preliminary notice : This webpage IS NOT is not an official page for this MTG.
It existed long before the MTG realization, as you will understand if you read hereunder… The official site is here : http://guignol.ccvl.fr
But the program of the Museum's café-théâtre is included in our BrindAGENDA page
Above : Guignol and Gnafron in a typical
brindasian landscape, the place of the village (Photo : JLB)
Brindas is a village located at about fifteen kilometers south-west of Lyon, which can praise itself to be the second home of Guignol (The first one being Lyon of course). Many plays of the repertory of the famous puppet show actually mention Brindas : Guignol meets his essential fellow Gnafron in Brindas, and it is there too that he becomes engaged and married. If by chance (in other stories) he gets married in Lyon, then it's in Brindas that he spends his honeymoon ! The mayor of Brindas himself, with his tricolour shoulder sash, was a character during the great hours of Guignol. And some still remember the departure of Guignol for the Moon... from the aerodrome in Brindas !! So why Brindas ?
Today, Jean-Guy Mourguet (photo on the left), the last puppeteer descendant of the family, who founded his own company in 1955, would like to see the creation of a Guignol foundation in Brindas, the village to which he bequeath his important collection of puppets. Serge Dumonteil, February 2001 (english version : 12-2005) ©
PS : This idea made its way, the donation went to the association of villages CCVL, |
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The MUSÉE THEATRE GUIGNOL in BRINDAS The Museum
The
Theatre Practical infos
Address :
MTG 18 montée de la Bernade, F 69126 Brindas
On-line : The musée-théâtre website (guignol.ccvl.fr) "Guignol des villes et Guignol des champs", Lyon and Brindas, two visits in one day, that's the possibility provided for groups thanks to partnership between MTG and the Musée des Marionnettes du Monde (Musées de Gadagne). All the information at MTG. |
IN THE PRESS…
"Guignol, putain, 200 ans !": Great article in Libération, with a JG Mourguet interview, out on 18-12-2007 : www.liberation.fr/...
A page on the museum-theater on the website of the CCVL (the community of communes which is now responsible for the project) : www.cc-vallonsdulyonnais.fr/decouvrir/guignol.htm
About Jean-Guy Mourguet's bequest for the "Musée de Guignol": Le Progrès du 10 Juin 2005...
About his current troupe in Brindas "Les Gones à Mourguet" : le journal du Dimanche 12 Juin 2005...
PS: Jean-Guy Mourguet died in October 2012… guignolsland.blogspot.fr/2012/10/jean-guy-mourguet-1929-2012…
1808/2008 : GUIGNOL's bicentenary
All the scheduled events listed here by Les Amis de Guignol…
Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June: Fête des Castelets, au Parc de la Tête d'or (free shows from 2 to 6 pm). (See at Les amisdeguignol.free.fr/...)
Saturday 14th June, from 5 pm, Place des Terreaux : "La leçon du Montreur" (a thousand one-day puppetteers follow the lesson of Le Montreur, as shown on a giant screen)
A video presentation of Guignol, by www.culture.lyon.fr (in french..) :
Guignol, Gnafron et Madelon
sent by portail_culture_lyon.
Image on right > Gnafron, Madelon & Guignol (in
a famous place of St Jean district in Le Vieux Lyon)
SOME LINKS
> A page in english about french marionettes and Guignol (on the RFI site) www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/...
> La "Société des Amis de Guignol" (friends of Guignol) is an association which exists since 1913 : http://amisdeguignol.free.fr/index.html
> On this site of "Le Parler lyonnais" you can find some Lyonnais/Français, or Français/Lyonnais dictionaries ! (sorry, no english) http://parlerlyon.free.fr/
> The Castelbou family inventoried all kinds of Guignol traces in Lyon and elsewhere : http://castelbou.free.fr/texte/traceguignol.htm
> Les Musées Gadagne (history of Lyon + puppets of the world), with an important puppet museum in Le vieux Lyon... www.museegadagne.com
> A video document in the INA
archives :
www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/...
From ORTF - Rhône Alpes
actualités from 4-4-1964 :
Interview with Pierre LEGRAND and Ernest NEICHTHAUSER (aged 87 then
and playing Guignol since 1902) who managed the theatre of the quai
St Antoine (then about to be demolished).
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And other GUIGNOLS
elsewhere :The Guignol du Jardin d'Acclimatation (created 1953) is the most famous of the parisian Guignols.
Les Guignols de l'Info (a TV program on Canal+, since 1988): they
don't use the traditionnal Guignol puppets, but they do have the
critical spirit ! (one can find recent episodes on the Canal+
site). Picture on right >>>
Their story on french Wikipédia..
A world listing of puppets theatres, on french Wikipédia too.
Books about Guignol
(with links to Amazon.fr)
- Théâtre lyonnais de Guignol : recueil de J. Onofrio
- L'histoire véritable de Guignol, de Paul Fournel
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Une
anémone pour Guignol
Other (or same) books, but by
Amazon.com (USA) :
L'Histoire
veritable de Guignol
Guignol: Les Mourguet
Guignol: Le roman d'un saltimbanque (Collection Le
Progrès)
Gnafron
à Paris: ou, Le Savetier Poète
(Almost) the same page, but... en français
Guignol's pages at Guignolsland : Guignol et Brindas // Gnafron (& Brindas) // Le grenier de Guignol // Guignol and Brindas -
- par
Etienne Ducret