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The club recently adopted a new motto — “Uni Historia Partis Futuro” — in other words, “where the party’s history meets its future.”

Every partis made from the collision of intersecting discs, giving it the surreal object-like quality of a Claes Oldenburg sculpture.

“After a couple of years working at Le Cirque, the chef became more comfortable with me, and he would allow me and the other chefs de partis to come up with ideas and incorporate them into the daily menu.”

This year’s festival lineup includes a tribute to him by his band, Il Sont Partis.

At first he called it the Buckwheat Zydeco Ils Sont Partis Band, from the Creole French announcement he had heard at horse races at Evangeline Downs, which was then in Carencro: “They’re off!”