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The close interdependence of folklore, sociology, and the history of civilization hardly ever before has appeared as clearly as in this masterful study of the eminent folklorist and director of the famous Musée des Antiquités Nationales, in Paris. Together with a staff of local investigators he has collected, during sev- eral decades, an overwhelmingly rich thesaurus of popular beliefs, customs, and ceremonies which not so many years ago were still alive in many regions of his native land and, in this book, has subjected them to a careful and stimulating analysis and interpretation. Most likely, he has thus preserved for study an im- portant element of civilization which already may be lost irretrievably. For the folklore of the French peasantry, probably the most at- tractive survival of an archaic civilization, has steadily lost ground during the first decades of this century and, after the recent national catastrophe, has come near extinction. The reasons for this rapid decline are manifold. Military conscription, obligatory schooling, the press, the interruption of tradition through the extermination of entire male age-groups in re- cent wars, the covering of the country with a

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Author

André Varagnac

Publisher

(Albin Michel) réédition numérique FeniXX

Published

1948

Language

FR

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities