{"id":2032867,"date":"2018-12-09T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2018\/12\/09\/9th-festival-du-merveilleux-at-the-musee-des-arts-forains\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:58:29","slug":"9th-festival-du-merveilleux-at-the-musee-des-arts-forains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2018\/12\/09\/9th-festival-du-merveilleux-at-the-musee-des-arts-forains\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Festival du Merveilleux at the Mus\u00e9e des Arts Forains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the Mus\u00e9e des Arts Forains never ceases to amaze us with its many shows.  <strong>From December 26 onwards, for the 9th edition of its Festival du Merveilleux, the museum will be transformed into a huge photo studio, offering visitors the chance to stage themselves in fairytale settings &amp; to plunge into the heart of the favorite attraction of 19th-century Parisians!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With this new creation, Jean-Paul Favand and his teams pay tribute to the beginnings of photography, to the tradition of self-portraits on photographic backgrounds, which at the time aroused a real craze for the medium among the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Evoking the scenes and settings used in the 19th century, <strong>everyone<\/strong> will <strong>be able to metamorphose into a Folies Berg\u00e8res showgirl, dance the French Cancan in front of Toulouse Lautrec, appear at the controls of a 1930s automobile, become Vermeer&#8217;s famous &#8220;Jeune fille \u00e0 la perle&#8221; (Girl with a Pearl), take tea in the poetic setting of Alice in Wonderland, experience an Indian festival and even fly into space&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"pcrstb-wrap\"><table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsantenne.com\/images\/images_clients\/compte_48740\/images\/Tableau%20Dans%20la%20loge%20de%20la%20meneuse%20de%20revue%20Festival%20du%20Merveilleux%20au%20Muse%CC%81e%20des%20Arts%20Forains%20Cre%CC%81dit%20Nathalie%20Baetens%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"345\" title=\"\">Copyright Nathalie Baetens<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsantenne.com\/images\/images_clients\/compte_48740\/images\/Tableau%20French%20Cancan%20avec%20Toulouse%20Lautrec%20Festival%20du%20merveilleux%20au%20Muse%CC%81e%20des%20Arts%20Forains%20Cre%CC%81dit%20Nathalie%20Baetens%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"345\" title=\"\">Copyright Nathalie Baetens<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsantenne.com\/images\/images_clients\/compte_48740\/images\/Tableau%20Le%20baiser%20de%20la%20colombe%20Festival%20du%20Merveilleux%20au%20MusC%CC%A7e%20des%20Arts%20Forains%20CrC%CC%A7dit%20Nathalie%20Baetens%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"345\" title=\"\">Copyright Nathalie Baetens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p><strong>With these comical, theatrical &amp; imaginary self-portraits, the museum is preparing to take us on a timeless journey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the Mus\u00e9e des Arts Forains never ceases to amaze us with its many shows. From December 26 onwards, for the 9th edition of its Festival du Merveilleux, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1245961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30407,30094],"tags":[69309],"class_list":["post-2032867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-of-living","category-culture-en","tag-musee-des-arts-forains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}