If the outfit does not make the monk, it makes the Provençal. Or rather the Provençals. The traditional Pegoulado parade, which animated the Boulevard des Lices and then the arenas last night, provided proof of this through the procession of more than twenty traditional groups representing a geographical arc going from Nîmes to Nice, in passing through Orange. The most numerous were obviously those from the country of Arles, who showed the Arles costume.in its diversity of season, function and territory“, as pointed out in the microphone Frédéric Soulié, journalist and majoral of the Félibrige, while L’Arlatenco, L’Étoile de l’Avenir, Lou Velout d’Arle, L’Escolo Mistralenco, les Saliniers de Camargo Souvajo, Li Coudelet Dansaïre de Saint-Martin-de-Crau, L’Escolo d’Argenço de Fourques or La Ribambello de Graveson fed his story.
But the Pegoulado, in Arles, is also and above all an opportunity to associate neighboring customs with the celebration of historic Provence: La Capouliero de Martigues, Li Festejaïre de Beaucaire, La Farigouleto de La Garde, Lou Roudelet dei Mielo des Milles, Le Gent de la Vistrenque de Garons, Les Enfants d’Arausio d’Orange, Lou Roudelet Felibren de Château-Gombert and La Ciamada Nissarda de Nice. A sartorial monochrome enhanced with a varied soundtrack that delights uninitiated photographers and testifies to a culture that resists standardization. And which kicks off a weekend whose climax, late Sunday afternoon at the ancient theater, will see the 25th Queen of Arles, on horseback yesterday evening, officially begin her reign .
