Le Cailar, in Petite Camargue, a refuge for artists and eccentrics

Seventeen is not an age to die. Yet it was on the threshold of his majority that the hero of Cailar chose to leave for other climes. A being so valiant that he was buried at the entrance to the village. A significant piece of information: he was not buried lying down, but standing. On the stele overlooking the tomb, two tridents intersect with this simple inscription above the dates 1916-1933: "Here is buried the Boar ." Because, beneath our feet, lies not a man, but indeed an animal. In Cailar, a village in the Gard region of the Petite Camargue, equidistant from Nîmes, Montpellier and Le Grau-du-Roi, there is no shortage of originality. Also, the recumbent figure in question here is no more a boar than a man, but a cult animal in these latitudes: a bull.

" It's quite simple, we have more bulls than people here," summarizes the mayor, Joël Téna. Thus, Le Cailar has around fifteen manades, these cattle farms whose primary purpose is...