{"id":882,"date":"2015-08-05T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/?p=882"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:30:38","slug":"olivier-lebleu-pour-les-avatars-de-zarafa-la-premiere-girafe-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Olivier Lebleu pour \u00ab\u00a0Les avatars de Zarafa, la premi\u00e8re girafe de France\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/visite-la-giraffe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-883 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/visite-la-giraffe-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"visite-la-giraffe\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/visite-la-giraffe-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/visite-la-giraffe.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Rapport Bernard Mounier<\/p>\n<p>Zarafa for ever ! Lors du passage du baccalaur\u00e9at dans la salle de l\u2019oratoire, en 1950, le sort m\u2019avait plac\u00e9 \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 du fils -ou du neveu- de la gardienne du mus\u00e9um d\u2019histoires naturelles. Nous nous y sommes retrouv\u00e9s, \u00e0 la nuit tomb\u00e9e, en exp\u00e9dition cavernicole \u00e0 la lueur d\u2019une lampe \u00e0 ac\u00e9tyl\u00e8ne, car mon guide faisait de la sp\u00e9l\u00e9ologie. C\u2019est ainsi que, parmi les fant\u00f4mes sortis de l\u2019ombre, je fis la tremblante reconnaissance de la girafe dont on me dit qu\u2019elle avait appartenu jadis \u00e0 un roi de France.<br \/>\nUn libraire ayant opportun\u00e9ment expos\u00e9 le livre d\u2019Olivier Lebleu \u00ab Les avatars de Zarafa, la premi\u00e8re girafe de France \u00bb, j\u2019en fis l\u2019acquisition, malgr\u00e9 son co\u00fbt un peu dispendieux mais je ne fus pas d\u00e9\u00e7u du voyage, cette expression vulgaire prenant ici tout son sens. Car dans ce livre, au hasard d\u2019un chemin se frayant parmi l\u2019efflorescence de 110 superbes et surprenantes illustrations, on apprend successivement que Zarafa fut offerte, en 1826, au roi Charles X par le pacha d\u2019Egypte M\u00e9h\u00e9met-Ali, que la cr\u00e9ature a \u00e9t\u00e9 embarqu\u00e9e sur un navire dont on avait d\u00e9coup\u00e9 le pont afin qu\u2019elle puisse passer le cou par le trou, qu\u2019elle fut h\u00e9berg\u00e9e pendant l\u2019hiver dans l\u2019h\u00f4tel du pr\u00e9fet de Marseille et qu\u2019elle a effectu\u00e9e, \u00e0 pieds, un trajet triomphal de 3 mois, frappant de stupeur admirative les populations, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 Paris o\u00f9 elle est arriv\u00e9e le 9 juillet 1827. Outre le roi et sa cour, sa pr\u00e9sence attira plus de 600.000 personnes.<br \/>\nSurprenante odyss\u00e9e magnifiquement cont\u00e9e par Olivier Lebleu. Allez visiter ou revisiter le mus\u00e9um de La Rochelle. La nouvelle mus\u00e9ographie en est exemplaire, le cabinet Lafaille a retrouv\u00e9 son lustre d\u2019antan et Zarafa, en h\u00f4tesse d\u2019accueil, est pr\u00e9sente sur le palier am\u00e9nag\u00e9 sp\u00e9cialement \u00e0 son intention en 1936, lorsqu\u2019elle fut donn\u00e9e par le mus\u00e9um national d\u2019histoires naturelles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapport Bernard Mounier Zarafa for ever ! Lors du passage du baccalaur\u00e9at dans la salle de l\u2019oratoire, en 1950, le sort m\u2019avait plac\u00e9 \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-91","category-archives","category-palmares-2008"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}