Title: Larzac 1978
Photographer(s): Yan Morvan
Writer(s): José Bové
Designer(s): Loic Vincent
Publisher(s): La Manufacture de livres éditions, Paris, France
Year: 2021
Print run:
Language(s): French
Pages: 140
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: MAS Matbaa, Instanbul, Turkey
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: France, 1978-1981
ISBN: 9782358877848
In 1971, the expansion of the Larzac military camp was announced. About a hundred farms were to disappear. This Causse, located at the entrance to the Cévennes, in the south of the Massif Central, then entered into history. Farmers and inhabitants of the plateau began a struggle that would last until 1981. Nearly 100,000 people converged on Larzac, and demonstrations, hunger strikes, occupations of military buildings, parties and marches were organised all over France... This is how the first "ZAD" and the French anti-globalisation movements were born. Larzac won its case ten years after the beginning of the occupation. Three years before this victory, in 1978, a great march was organised to Paris, a high point of the struggle which then gained the official support of François Mitterand. Yan Morvan covered these last years of the struggle as a photojournalist. These photographs bear witness to this moment in history.