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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Just call me Jari: [QB] [b]The contradictory descriptions could also mean that they descend from an admixture of Visigoths and Saracens, maybe after both groups were ostracised from the mainstream population. This is all the more likely that the locals were so homogeneous, so that any distant foreigner like a blond Goth or an olive-skinned Saracen would stand out like a black sheep in the herd.[/b] [b]Their provenance is opaque. That is partly because the Cagots themselves have disappeared from view. During the French Revolution, the laws against Cagots were formally abandoned – indeed many Cagots pillaged local archives and erased any record of their ancestry. After 1789, the Cagots slowly assimilated into the general populace; many may have even emigrated. Nonetheless, there are historical accounts that afford an intriguing glimpse. [b]Contemporary sources describe them as being short, dark and stocky.[/b] Confusingly, some others saw them as blonde and blue eyed. Francisque Michel’s Histoire des races maudites [b](History of the cursed races, 1847), was one of the first studies. He found Cagots had “frizzy brown hair”.[/b] :D :D He also found at least 10,000 Cagots still scattered across Gascony and Navarre, still suffering repression – nearly 70 years after the Cagot caste was “abolished”.[/i] “I believe the Cagots are descendants of Moorish soldiers left over from the 8th century Muslim invasion of Spain and France. [b]That’s why some people called them ‘Saracens’. I am quite dark, and my daughter Sylvia is the darkest in her class.”[/b] And her theory, of the Cagots being converted but still-distrusted Muslims, is supported by many French experts: because it neatly explains the religious disapproval of the Cagots. As for the geographical spread, that’s probably linked to the St James pilgrim routes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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