Occitan literature – London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grinder tweets for November 2017

More monkey mess from the peripatetic Homerton/Hackney barrel organ.

Rats/mice bearing the cat to his grave in Tarragona, anticipating Russian prints of the scene.

The 1660 Foire de Saint-Germain

Featuring castanets, monkeys, marionettes, and human and tortoise castles.

Balthasar Nebot, The Forze D'Ercole; the Castellani acrobats in a Venetian piazza.

Organ grinders and monkey and marmot migration

Any proto-ecologists don’t seem to have cared very much.

The recto of the Anglicised business card.

Noisy buskers used to drown out the sounds of murder

But were organ-grinders really complicit in the 1817 killing at Rodez of the French politician Fualdès, as the translation suggests, or were the vielles hurdy-gurdies, as you’d expect?