The Sixth Washing of the Madeleine, le Lavage de la Madeleine.
At the square of the Madeleine's church, Paris.





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A ritual festival of Bahia, one of the 26 states of Brazil.





Bahia in the centre of the Afro-Brazilian culture.





Most of the population is descendant of Black African slaves, who were mainly Yoruba speakers from Nigeria and Benin.





This Bahian ritual consists to wash the square of the Madeleine's church of Paris. The French call "le lavage de la Madeleine".





Brazilian women in Paris.