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3 Crossing the streams
Abstract
This chapter analyses the interaction of Occitan (Oc) and vine to illustrate the Régional narrative which developed throughout the twentieth century. It discusses the impact of the annees 68 and notes that an increased national appetite developed for discussing the role of the regions in the centralised state. The newly politicised Occitan movement became grafted onto major moments of protest such as the miner's strike at Decazeville and the later peasant camp at Larzac after 1970. The alignment of the Occitan movement with the Défense movement was a worrying development for the forces of order, yet in both instances the Languedoc's republican inheritance prevented them tipping into revolutionary violence. Montredon arose as a result of the impunity with which the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV) had conducted itself in the preceding year, now loosely allied with a group of Occitan nationalists railing against the internal colonialism of the north.
Abstract
This chapter analyses the interaction of Occitan (Oc) and vine to illustrate the Régional narrative which developed throughout the twentieth century. It discusses the impact of the annees 68 and notes that an increased national appetite developed for discussing the role of the regions in the centralised state. The newly politicised Occitan movement became grafted onto major moments of protest such as the miner's strike at Decazeville and the later peasant camp at Larzac after 1970. The alignment of the Occitan movement with the Défense movement was a worrying development for the forces of order, yet in both instances the Languedoc's republican inheritance prevented them tipping into revolutionary violence. Montredon arose as a result of the impunity with which the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV) had conducted itself in the preceding year, now loosely allied with a group of Occitan nationalists railing against the internal colonialism of the north.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures viii
- List of tables ix
- Acknowledgements x
- Abbreviations xii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Memories of protests past 21
- 2 Peasants and paroxysms 52
- 3 Molotovs in the Minervois 86
- 3 Crossing the streams 128
- 4 Montredon to Mitterrand 164
- 5 Burial or resurrection? 203
- 7 A world of wine 242
- Conclusion 259
- Index 270
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures viii
- List of tables ix
- Acknowledgements x
- Abbreviations xii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Memories of protests past 21
- 2 Peasants and paroxysms 52
- 3 Molotovs in the Minervois 86
- 3 Crossing the streams 128
- 4 Montredon to Mitterrand 164
- 5 Burial or resurrection? 203
- 7 A world of wine 242
- Conclusion 259
- Index 270
