Bouzingo Means Noise: Freaks, Weirdos, Visionaries, and Outsiders
Intro from the upcoming book tentatively titled:
Bouzingo Means Noise: Eccentrics, Weirdos, Visionaries, and Outsiders by Todd Pendu
The Bouzingo were an anti-bourgeois anarchist collective composed of writers and artists who lived and worked in Paris in the 1830′s. They were notorious for pranks and rabble rousing, for brashly playing instruments that they didn’t even know how to play to annoy passer-bys on the streets, for drinking wine from human skulls, and for other acts of defiance of good taste and bourgeois civility. They were also known as Le Petit Cénacle, Les Tartares, Les Frénétiques, and Les Jeunes-France. Later, in the 1840′s they were instrumental in the creation of the infamous Club des Haschischins.
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