Guy Fawkes Night

Guy Fawkes Night , which can be translated into French as Guy Fawkes' Night , is an event that is celebrated every year, mainly in Great Britain , on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot on November 5, 1605, the day on which English Catholics led by Robert Catesby , accompanied by Guy Fawkes and eleven other conspirators, attempted to blow up Parliament. The plot failed and the conspirators were arrested and executed. Bonfire Night , as it is also known, also commemorates the escape of King James I from the assassination attempt.

The day before the festivities, theNovember 5th, Guy Fawkes figures are prepared by children in competitions between schools, cakes are also prepared and the selected puppet is burned as a symbol, in the name of the town. Once the bonfires are lit, at nightfall, children wearing Guy Fawkes masks ask passers-by for "A penny for the guy" so that they can give some coins to buy fireworks.

A Guy Fawkes Nights parade is described in the novel Return to Whitechapel , by French academic Michel Moatti . The episode takes place onNovember 5, 1888, during the Jack the Ripper murders in Spitalfields and Whitechapel .

Guy Fawkes Night appears in the book Poirot Solves Three Mysteries by Agatha Christie .

The comic V for Vendetta also clearly refers to Guy Fawkes Night: its hero quotes the popular song and wears a mask representing the English Catholic.

A reference to Guy Fawkes Night is also present in the series Daria (season 3 episode 3), in the character of "Guy Fawkes Day".

The episode The Empty Coffin of the series Sherlock refers to this event.

The third volume of The Gem Trilogy , by Kerstin Gier , ends during Bonfire night.

In his poem Hollow Men , TS Eliot quotes Guy Fawkes in the epigraph "A penny for the old Guy " .