Today, Philippa World is looking for the French cowboys.
Here are some French cowboys...good singers indeed, very funny and burelesque no doubt... but these are not the French cowboys we are looking for...
What about this French cowboy? Ah! No...this is our president...our little Nicolas.
He is not in the American Wild Wild West but in the French Wild Wild South called Camargue.
The Camargue is located in Provence, in the south of France between Spain and Italy, where people used to speak occitan.
Well let's have Nicolas guiding us in the Camargue where real French cowboys are...
Our guide went to a Manade which is a ranch in Camargue.
In these ranches called Manades, there are cowboys called Gardians who like our president are riding white horses called Camarguais horses.
Camarguais horses are very recognizable. They usually are white and not too tall.
Gardians are also very recognizable, but unlike our president who seems to like wearing Ralph Lauren shirts as per the NY Times, we know that Gardians usually wear local outfits. They usually wear shirts with typical provencal designs. Nowadays, brands such as les Olivades, Souleiado or Les Indiennes de Nimes print these designs in an industrial manner. And they usually wear pants made out of a quite resistant local fabric that Levis Strauss exported from Nimes and marketed very well: the provencal blue fabric "de Nimes" (i.e. from Nimes) that nowadays everybody wears and call "Denim".
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