Picasso and Hemingway believed folk sports like the course camarguaise were the height of European culture. Facing financial struggles, rowdy spectators and animal rights concerns, can its practitioners keep the custom alive?
Taurine torpor: bullfighting’s non-fatal French cousin fights for survivalwere the height of European culture. Facing financial struggles, rowdy spectators and animal rights concerns, can its practitioners keep the custom alive?n an arena in the southern French village of Raphèle-lès-Arles on a torpidly hot July afternoon, a young black bull paws the floor next to the exit door. Eight– the white-clad runners whose job is to seize tokens fixed to the animal – yell to get its attention.
In the confrontation between, and enmeshing of, man and bull, Picasso saw the essence of the artistic struggle with nature: “If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur,” he said in 1960., as it’s referred to in Provençal – is as much on the defensive as the bull inside the Raphèle-lès-Arles arena, who is stubbornly sticking to his safe space by the bolted door.
The sport is in outwardly decent health, with audiences actually increasing during the pandemic period and afterwards, to about 400,000 spectators a year by 2023. But it is increasingly corralled into a rural hinterland, which now votes mostly Rassemblement National, and alienated from the urban decision-making enclaves from which much animal rights activism emerges. The nearest major city, Montpellier, destroyed its last arena in 1968.
and also an IT director for Groupe RG, a manufacturer of personal protective equipment. It’s one answer to the financial tightrope many Camargue ranchers are now walking: only his brother and son, not him, draw a salary from theAnother modern business strategy with a taurine ring could be key to revitalising the Camargue traditions: branding.
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