LA FRANCE PROFONDE

Cazaux d’Angles is a small commune in the department of the Gers. It is an old castelnau, a settlement fortified against attack in the Middle Ages, situated in a hilly, wooded farming area.


This is old Gascony, famed for its wines, its Armagnac, its foie gras and confit de canard.


Two World Wars, the mechanisation of agriculture and the migration of its young people to the towns and cities, have contributed to the gradual decline in the rural population and the disappearance of many rural traditions and practices.


The village no longer has its school, its butcher, its baker, its bar or its cafe.


But this is part of ‘La France profonde’. The evidence remains.


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