It's the Festival de Country Music de Mirande, held every year at this time. It's a six day festival; 160,000 people are expected.
There are some country acts from the states, but many of the bands are French. Most sing in English, and some even speak it.
Most of the visitors are French, many of them dressed as cowboys and Indians. The Grand Cafe Glacier is redone as an old western saloon. A large stadium near the center of town sells la culture country: Stetson hats, "authentic" Sioux Indian duds, western regalia, cowboy paraphernalia, and goat cheese.
There are two ballrooms, a concert stage and a line dancing stage where the 31 line dancing clubs can show their stuff.
Why cowboys? Why not?
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While in France, go to the Tarzan exhibit at the Musee du Quai in Paris. See old comics, film clips, action figures, African totems a stuffed crocodile and the female robot from the movie "Metropolis."
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Why Metropolis? Why not?
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Why Tarzan? The newspaper "Liberation," in a review of the exhibit, said, "One can expound as much as one likes in scientific speeches about his mythical and universal nature, but one always gets back to the fact that Tarzan is a half naked guy saving white skinned young women, lost in the jungle and wearing their party dresses, from the claws of vicious gorillas."
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(NYT)
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