Fous

There'll be some world-class work on show here, from French company Ilotopie walking on water in the exquisite Waterfools Fous de Bassin, to the festival finale with Argentinean company Voala taking inspiration from 1960s psychedelia for their piece Moare, in which 13 acrobats are suspended from a giant mobile.

This week's new theatre 2011

I took a Visual Anthropology seminar this past few months, studying the history of ethnographic film -- beginning basically with Nanook Of The North, on through Les Maitres Fous, and Dead Birds -- up through Tongues Untied and Reassemblage.

And how! Roger Sutton 2007

Fous littéraires is a French term used to denote outsider writers who have failed to attract any recognition, not by the intellegentiae, not by the public, not by art critics, not by publishers since they are largely self-published, and which treat subject matter considered – at least by those who qualify these writers as fous littéraires – as offbeat and amusing, without this being the intention of the author.

Most of the afternoon has been spent on « Jahsonic 2008

Fous littéraires is a French term used to denote outsider writers who have failed to attract any recognition, not by the intellegentiae, not by the public, not by art critics, not by publishers since they are largely self-published, and which treat subject matter considered – at least by those who qualify these writers as fous littéraires – as offbeat and amusing, without this being the intention of the author.

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Réalisatrice (avec Jean Loiseau) de deux 26 minutes pour Thalassa (FR3), "Fous de Surf" et "La Dame du Reef" - 1988

Archive 2008-10-14 2008

“Fous bossedez notre langue barfaidement, monsieur.”

The Virginians 2006

At the same time, the fools of the Fête des Fous and the Société Joyeuse were not, of course, genuinely simpleminded, and the distinction must be made be - tween the authentic or natural fool and the artificial or professional fool.

WISDOM OF THE FOOL WALTER KAISER 1968

The famous, sometimes infamous, Fête des Fous gave the lower clergy, if only ephemerally, the traditional freedom accorded the fool.

WISDOM OF THE FOOL WALTER KAISER 1968

The Hôpital des Fous, however, is an establishment well calculated to gratify the laudable curiosity of the humane; and to judge from all we witnessed, may perhaps exhibit points of internal regulation worthy the attention of professional men.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

For further bibliographical references consult CHEVALIER, Topo-bibliographie, s.v. Fous.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913