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Jul 2024
19m 40s

The Beast of Gévaudan

STUDIO MINUIT
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The Gévaudan district in Languedoc, in the south of France, is a region of ancient mountains covered in forest. In the second half of the XVIIIth century, it was a place to breed cattle. Life was hard and the people were poor, if not say miserable. It is the children who guarded the herds. They prevented them from straying and being eaten by wolves. On these mountains, wolves were part of everyday life. Frightening, sure, but the villagers knew how to defend themselves against these predators who fear men, as much as they're feared by them...


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