Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Occitan afternoon

Dr Catherine Leglu presented her talk
Each year Laguepie has an Universite Occitan, exploring all aspects of the culture of Occitanie, from language and literature to music and dance.
In recent years English specialists have presented papers and this year a lecturer from the University of Reading gave an illustrated talk on the impact of the presence of "English" rulers and their claims in Gascony and Aquitaine.
Scheduled as a two hour talk it nevertheless lasted a little over 75 minutes and was consequently a little fragmented.

To the specialists in the audience it was probably a fascinating exposition, but to TAG's representative it was more "interesting in parts, less so in others". For a very hot July 14th afternoon the organisers must have been pleased with the turn out, with many TAG readers present. It did seem that the Anglo-Saxon part of the audience preferred wine to the offered tea, and the "cocons" were not mysterious at all, just a type of fouace.
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Some of the audience seemed to get bored