Irreconcilable.
For some, it is an artistic discipline;
for the others, a succession of tortures inflicted on the animal.
The positions, often very clear-cut on both sides, rarely leave a gap for lukewarm opinions, the zetetic or those without opinion.
Reason or unreason, the bullfight, in the debate, rears and hearts, and minds.
In public opinion, the French are 74% to say they are in favor of its ban, according to an Ifop poll for the
JDD
published in mid-November.
In the south of the country, which concentrates all the arenas and where the bullfighting tradition is ancestral, 71% of the population is on the contrary for the maintenance of bullfighting, according to an Ifop-Fiducial study carried out in June for Sud Radio.
A geographical divide that makes you forget that the "plaza de toros" were not confined to the south of France alone: Paris, where the National Assembly will examine Aymeric Caron's bill on Thursday, hosted bullfights.
It was in the Bois de Boulogne, between 1889 and 1892!
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