Banquet Hippophagique, Bétonsalon Paris

This Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris slide depicts the typical three gold horse heads that decorate horse butchershops' storefronts.

This placemat presents the location of horse butchers in Paris in 1966, 100 years after the legalisation of horse meat consumption.

The table at Bétonsalon.

Some of the participants tasting horse pot-au-feu based on a recipe from 1871.

The placemat in use.

Eva Barois De Caevel serving the pot-au-feu to participants.

"Le Banquet Hippophagique" was a horse-based meal at the Art and Research Center Bétonsalon in Paris.

The project emerged out of archival and ethnographic research to map and understand the rise and current fall of horse butchery in Paris. The banquet was intended to be a platform to question which animals we decide to consume and to reveal the role economics, politics and class play in shaping the morality of our diets.

Based on address bulletins found in the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, Chloé Roubert designed placemats mapping the location of Paris' horse butchers 100 years after the legalization of hippophagy (the act of eating horse); they can be found here.

The work was presented in the context of a workshop curated by Eva Barois De Caevel.