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Author: Wolfgang Hertle, translated by Kathryn Walker
In the ten years between 1971 and 1981, the rural population on the Larzac plateau in southern France opposed the expansion of a military camp. The training ground, which bordered on the outskirts of the village of La Cavalerie and covered 3000 hectares, had been established in 1900. For decades, there was rarely any trouble between the soldiers and the farmers, whose sheep provide the milk for Roquefort cheese. When, at the start of (…)