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| Écrit par Jacques Lagorce |
| Dimanche, 19 Mars 2006 15:59 |
 History of the Nontron’s BELLOWSAbout the Bellows : According M. Louis le Cam… I his tradition back from the Middle Ages. It has only survived in Nontron and in St Claude (Jura). It would be about a « Sotie », a joke in the course of which the people wore masks and fancy dresses which allowed to him lo laugh at the Powerfuls and the Riches, and particulary priest and monks. The parade took place during the period preceding the Lent’s fast , the moment that a certain liberty in the manners was authorised. The « Bellows » would have been meant for shooting the Devil hidden under the women’ skirt. The Nontron’s women had the reputation to be casual. May be can we see in the « Bellows » an allude to a traditional industry in the city. This tradition would has been out of fashion and of date.It would has been expored in the Mexico by a religious order and backed in Jura and in Nontron by soldiers come back in France, after the conquest’s failure in 1865. Other theory by M. Paul Thibaud… I his tradition would be a « respectfulness » imitation of the zeal of the Saint-Sauveur’s Priests.For hiding the badly spirit the « good priests » wore in white and fitted with bellows, blowing energetically in all the places which were susceptible of shelter the Devil. |
| Mise à jour le Dimanche, 19 Mars 2006 16:16 |
