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BLOOD OF THE BEAST

AT THE DOORS OF PARIS

At the doors of Paris, the uncultivated lands, where young poor men play...

...they are seeded of unique relics of a wealth past.

Arranged and offered for the benefit...

...of peculiar, traveling poets and lovers...

...here, on the brink of madness the life of the city, between trucks and trains.

Im Lager von Vanves ist es das Schlachthaus "Vaugiraud".

In spite of the bullfighting statues,...

...the urban slaughter house is specialized in the slaughter of horses.

To Emile Decroix Defender of the equine meat

The used tools vary based on the animal:

the rush, or cane...

...the mallet...

...and the pistol of retained projectile, whose impact kills the animal right away.

After bleeding, the horse hangs itself to complete the drained one of blood.

Later one loosen to skin it.

Compressed air under the skin is pumped to make the task easier.

The legs are extracted to him.

The hooves will become installment,...

...and the vegetal coal bones...

...become articles of cosmetic.

The delicate task of skinning with one razor to shave sharpened...

...she is not free of danger.

Skinning a horse, Ernest Bruyet sectioned the femoral artery.

The right leg had to be amputated.

This black horse killed Alfred Macquart,...

...possessor of the prestigious "Better Working" diploma of France.

Auguste Macquart, his grandfather,...

...was one of the founders, that packed meat at the beginning of the last century.

To the doors of Paris,...

...the �Channel of l'Ourcq� and the �Wheels of the fortune�.

�Bearing of Pantin�, the market the "Villette�.

A bridge connects the slaughter house with the market...

...for the transfer of cattle.

To the deafening roar of the pneumatic freight elevators,...

...the butchers and the climbers work...

...under the heavy vapor given off by the blood of the beasts.

Maurice Griselle, french boxing ex-champion.

Andre Brunier, one of the best ones using the wooden hammer in the Villette

When inserting the cane in the channel of the medular,...

...it perforates and it destroys the spinal marrow, suppressing therefore the reflections of the animal.

The oppression, completes the drained one of the blood,...

...most of which, gathers in containers.

The channels gather the rest.

This one is gutted while the freight elevator rises.

The fatty surpluses will be gathered by nuns.

Henri Fournel can divide an ox in the time that the clock gives 12:00.

In order to conserve the white calf meat, he beheads the animal to drain all the blood.

The dead animal still shakes, but they are only concerned involuntary.

The heads are marked to identify and to count the cattle.

This is neither a chapel in honor to Babtist San Juan protection patron of the butchers,...

...nor to its tender lamb.

It is the zone of auctions of the slaughter house.

The mother sheeps are guided by the "Traitor".

It knows the way, and its life will be pardoned.

The others follow obediently, bleating...

...like condemned men who still sing knowing that its song is useless.

In order to skin them, the sheep perforate themselves.

During the years, this difficult task can cause a cyst in the wrist.

"I will strike you, without rage and hatred, like a butcher",

...wrote Baudelaire.

Without rage, without hatred,...

...with the placidness of the assassins who whistle or sing while they crack throats,

...because they must gain the bread of every day...

...with the pays of difficult and often a dangerous profession.

The sea that we were present at to dance...

...throughout the radiating bays.

The silver-plated sparkles of the sea,

...reflections alternating in the rain.

The sea...

in the summery sky,

...the plush clouds, sheep,

...they seem like angels back in the height.

The sea,

...shepherd of infinite blue color,

...it observes...

...next to the lagoon, the high and humid rushes;

...it observes...

...the white birds; the rusted houses.

The sea...

The day comes to an end.

In the fold, the sheep, still altered, will remain sleeping in silence.

They will not listen to the closing of the doors of its prison,...

...nor the train from Villette to Paris,...

...that starts off after the dusk...

...in order to gather the following victims.