Whether they promote skill, strength or beauty, traditional festivals embody a certain idea of France. But the urban exodus, the aging of the population or its lack of interest often prevent them from continuing. Formed by the elders, a new generation is taking over.
Le Figaro
met these guardians of traditions.
When Raoul Mailhan steps into the heart of the arenas of Arles, this May 1, he knows that he will remember this moment until the end of his days.
Is he aware that, from the top of the amphitheater, twenty centuries are contemplating him?
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This coronation, this recognition of the brotherhood of the herdsmen of the Camargue, which brings together all the breeders of bulls and horses in the country, he dreamed of it from an early age.
And now he finds himself today, like so many others before him, on this horse in a light gray coat, felt hat on his head, in the middle of an amphitheater bathed in the warm spring sun.
He is the man of the day, the one to whom all...
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