Cagots - Lot 140

Cagots FAY (Henri Marcel) History of Leprosy in France * Lepers and Cagots of the Southwest. Historical, medical and philological notes followed by documents. With a preface by Professor Gilbert BALLET. Paris, Champion, 1910. Fort in-8: XXVI, 784pp; 14 plates and one fold-out map out of text, illustrations in text. ½ brick chagrin with corners, gilt title and fillets on spine, The most important study of this population group, which has always been excluded from society. The most complete edition, the first, much more succinct, is from Coulommiers, Brodard, 1907 under the title: "La Lèpre dans le Sud-Ouest - Les Cagots"(XV, 107pp.). This work is not the only one on a subject that has always interested researchers. It was preceded by Francisque Michel's "Histoire des Races Maudites de la France et de l'Espagne" in 1847, Eugène Cordier's "Les cagots des Pyrénées" in 1866, Victor de Rochas's "Les Parias de France et d'Espagne" in 1876, but it was Palassou who took the prize for publishing the first study of its kind in 1815: "Mémoire sur la constitution physique des Cagots". Elements are also to be found in the writings of Vinson, Hovelaque, Bascle de Lagrèze, Foix, etc.