FÊTE DU BOULETCHOU
Once a year, the people of Mézois celebrate their traditions. For one day, they dress in their old clothes for a colourful parade (the town provides the public with costumes to be collected from the Château de Girard the week before the festival), they gather around a large brasucade, celebrate a wedding as in 1900 and above all they go fishing for "bouletchou" (French transcription of the Occitan pronunciation of "Bolejon"). Having left a rope on the beach, the fishermen go, with the oar, to stretch a net far from the beach and then they come back with the second end of the rope. They then combine their efforts to pull the net ashore. The pocket at the end of the net acts as a trap. This method of fishing has now disappeared but was still practiced in the 1970s. The annual festival is the occasion for a beautiful reconstitution.
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