Special Envoy to Nantes
The large leek head made of comical and intriguing papier-mâché is of the best effect. In the past, it would have allowed a Nantes, market gardener or ecologist before his time, to shine on a carnival float. Today, it rests in the reserves of the Peignon house, which reigned supreme for one hundred and fifty years over costumes and masks, in the city. This famous vegetable head is part of a series of fabulous masks - animal, heads of men with protruding noses, yellow dwarf, or monumental turbans of the great mamamouchi.
Surrounded by tissue paper, they are waiting for the time of departure: from June 29 to September 3, on the occasion of the cultural season Le Voyage à Nantes, they will leave the family reserves and will be exhibited in the diocesan house of Nantes. Apart from their beauty and the funny power they release, they will allow you to touch with your finger what was the Peignon costume house. It was well established...
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