Attack of the badger-men: can women find a place in the violent and wine-soaked carnivals of southern France?

I n the early afternoon of Ash Wednesday, dread creatures dressed in white walk the streets of the medieval southern of Cournonterral. They wear long masks of black badger hair, top hats crowned by feathers and sprays of boxwood, and body armour comprising sacks stuffed with straw. Despite the early...

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