Touloulou

The Touloulou (French pronunciation: [tululu]) is the most famous of the typical characters and the queen of Guianan carnival.

In order not to be recognized, women go so far as to put colored lenses, wigs and camouflage their voices.

[1] They do not wear their usual perfume, buy pairs of shoes for the occasion that they will not return and do not move with their vehicle to remain anonymous.

In the nightclubs, renamed occasionally "universities", it is the touloulous who invite men to dance.

This typical figure of Guianan Creole culture represents the bourgeois women of the 18 and 19th centuries, in their Sunday best, dressed in their heads to the feet.

Touloulous in Cayenne streets in 2007.
A Touloulou in front of the famous dance hall "Soleil Levant", in Cayenne .