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The history of this event goes back far beyond the French Revolution. In these times, there were some intemperate privileges in the eyes of the harsh famines and food shortages of the population. To see the lords and consuls, who ruled the village, take advantage of the public money and show their escapades to everyone's sight, the villagers were révoltèrent. On the afternoon of May 1, a handful of them decided to mount a farce that would bring these notables into play. The most talkative became the great lord with a grotesque hat. It was also necessary to sing these two consuls of consuls. What to do, evil for evil, was named Lord of Snails and Lord of the Chafer, the worst enemies of harvests. We walked a trolley to install the three. The other villagers, in turn, were singèrent the city's bourgeois and notables, which formed a sort of small court around the main leaders. Sitting on donkeys, on vétustes and grotesque carts, they turned to a large carnival gonna. The procession stopped on the place of the village where the false lord denounced everything the villagers had on his heart, a direct attack on the power in place. Very cleverly, he did not réprima the demonstrators and even allowed them to organize this masquerade every year, a salutary valve that avoided revolt and channeled popular resentment.
It was born the Càrri, whose tradition continues: every ten to twenty years (the last editions took place in 2000 and 2010), motorcades of knights, riders and carts invade the village for a dive of a few centuries in the space of a Sunday.
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