Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler "Let the good times roll!" * Strokes by Red

Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler

By Red (Linda Harrison)

Posted June 28, 2018

In Abstracts, Acrylics, Red's Art

Print available for this painting

Medium: Acrylic

Original sizes:

40" x 72"
72" x 40"

Print sizes:

12" x 24"
18" x 24"
18" x 36"
24" x 12"
24" x 18"
24" x 30"
24" x 36"
24" x 48"
30" x 24"
30" x 40"
36" x 18"
36" x 24"
36" x 48"
40" x 30"
48" x 24"
48" x 36"

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“Laissez les bons temps rouler!” is a Cajun expression meaning “Let the good times roll!” It strongly conveys the “joie de vivre” (“joy of living”) attitude that pervades south Louisiana. Of course, it is mostly associated with New Orleans. For, this phrase pops up throughout the Mardi Gras season. If you didn’t take French in high school, you may struggle to say “laissez les bon temps rouler.” To our American tongues, this phrase is literally foreign. As for pronunciation, try it phonetically – lay-zEh leh bAwn taw rOO-leh or you can try Lazay Lay Bon Tom Roulay or “Lay-say le bontom roo-lay.

No matter how you pronounce it, it is a fun expression to use. Did you know that when someone shouts “Laissez les bon temps rouler”, you should respond with “Oui, cher.” In English, this means “Yeah, you right.”

Creating my artwork is one of my joyous adventures and the bons temps seem to always be present with life in my studio. So this painting with its intricacies of colors, shapes and movement is an expression to roll with life’s good times that may come your way.

So let the good times roll!

(…yeah, you right!)

Title: Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 72×40 or 40×72

This painting can also be hung horizontally.