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In the French Camargue - the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern "nation" of Occitania - the bull is a powerful icon of nationalism, literature, and culture. This book discusses and analyses how the Camargue bull came to confront the French cock, venerable symbol of a unified and republican France.

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“Robert Zaretsky’s engrossing story of the ways in which a distinctive local identity was constructed in the late nineteenth century. . . . makes a real contribution to a genre that has produced some of the finest writing on modern France. . . . An insightful and thought-provoking book, based on an impressive knowledge of this region and its history. Like Zaretsky’s prose, the books’s production is of the highest quality.”—Peter McPhee, American Historical Review
“This is a suggestive book that students of regional identities and cross-cultural contact will want to read.”—H-France Review
“This is an interesting book, well worth reading. Compact and nicely written . . . it is in some ways a publisher’s dream.”—John Merriman, History

Cock and Bull Stories Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue

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      Publisher: MQ - University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780803218383, 978-0803218383
      ISBN10: 0803218389

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the French Camargue - the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern "nation" of Occitania - the bull is a powerful icon of nationalism, literature, and culture. This book discusses and analyses how the Camargue bull came to confront the French cock, venerable symbol of a unified and republican France.

      Trade Review
      “Robert Zaretsky’s engrossing story of the ways in which a distinctive local identity was constructed in the late nineteenth century. . . . makes a real contribution to a genre that has produced some of the finest writing on modern France. . . . An insightful and thought-provoking book, based on an impressive knowledge of this region and its history. Like Zaretsky’s prose, the books’s production is of the highest quality.”—Peter McPhee, American Historical Review
      “This is a suggestive book that students of regional identities and cross-cultural contact will want to read.”—H-France Review
      “This is an interesting book, well worth reading. Compact and nicely written . . . it is in some ways a publisher’s dream.”—John Merriman, History

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