Eloge du Beret
In the cold, I put on my Basque beret!
The winter is coming, the time has come to bring out his Basque beret... or buy one.
The Basque beret is not Basque. Its origin lies in a neighbouring country, Béarn. The name comes from the Gascon (Occitan dialect of Béarn) berret, cap in French.
A real beret can only be made of wool and without edges. It's the perfect head covering to protect yourself from the cold. In order to be effective against rain and snow, its diameter has sometimes been increased. The champion all categories is the beret of the French army's alpine hunters.
The beret is dyed in black but on holiday days reds are found in the 7 provinces of the Basque country. In Spain, the Carlists adopted this red beret.
It is also in Spain that the largest number of carriers of the Basque beret that crossed the Atlantic and was also very well carried in Argentina.
This beret eventually covered heads in Eastern Europe, China, Japan, where it is manufactured. I own several berets, one two comes from Yugoslavia. The country no longer exists but the beret still serves me, it is the one I prefer.
What future for the Basque beret? If farmers and farmers wear it less and less, often preferring hats, young urban dwellers, men and women, are interested. He is also the head of many intellectuals and artists, which gives us the opportunity to talk about Luis Mariano.
He was buried in the cemetery of Arcangues in his native Basque Country.
Weared by Che it even became inseparable from the iconic image of revolutionaries from all over the world.
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