Mardi Gras Monarchy Restored Victory over the Axis restored a beloved monarch to New Orleans -- Rex, Lord of Misrule, son of Old King Cole and Terpsichore. The monarch of Mardi Gras will parade this year for the first time since 1941, when he abdicated in favor of Mars. Here, in the celebration of a past Mardi Gras, hundreds of thousands of subjects cheer the king of Mardi Gras leading his triumphal parade along New Orleans' Canal Street.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. December 1945]

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