Editing Cagot (section)

== Modern status ==

[[File:Arreau château des Nestes (1).JPG|thumb|Château des Nestes in [[Arreau]] ]]

[[Kurt Tucholsky]] wrote in his book on the ''Pyrenees'' in 1927: "There were many in the Argelès valley, near Luchon and in the Ariège district. Today they are almost extinct, you have to search hard if you want to see them".<ref>{{cite book |last=Tucholsky |first=Kurt |author-link=Kurt Tucholsky |date=1927 |title=Ein Pyrenäenbuch |language=de |trans-title=A book of the Pyrenees |location=Berlin |pages=97–104 |url=http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/20Jh/Tucholsky/tuc_py07.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519113028/http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/20Jh/Tucholsky/tuc_py07.html |archive-date=19 May 2022}}</ref> Examples of prejudice still occurred into the 19th and 20th century,{{sfnp|Tuke|1880|p=377}} including a scandal in the village of [[Lescun]] where in the 1950s a non-Cagot woman married a Cagot man.<ref>{{harvp|Jolly|2000|p=207|ps=: "{{lang|fr|Tout le monde se plaît par contre à citer ce qui est donné pour être la dernière manifestation effective du phénomène de ségrégation: le dernier mariage « qui a fait scandale » à Lescun entre une fille de grande famille et un cagot, dans les années 1950.}}" ["On the other hand, everyone likes to cite what is given to be the last effective manifestation of the phenomenon of segregation: the last marriage "which caused a scandal" in Lescun between a girl from a large family and a cagot, in the 1950s."]}}</ref>

There was a distinct Cagot community in [[Navarre]] until the early 20th century, with the small northern village called [[Arizkun]] in [[Basque language|Basque]] (or Arizcun in Spanish) being the last haven of this segregation,{{r|Carrasco, 1979}} where the community was contained within the neighbourhood of Bozate.{{r|Garcia Piñuela}}{{sfnp|Pérez|2010}} Between 1915 and 1920 the Ursúa noble family sold the land that Cagots had worked for the Ursúa for centuries in the area of [[Baztan, Navarre|Baztan]] to the Cagot families.{{r|Jolly, 200b}} Family names in Spain still associated with having Cagot ancestors include: ''Bidegain, Errotaberea, Zaldua, Maistruarena, Amorena,'' and ''Santxotena''.{{sfnp|Pérez|2010}}

The Cagots no longer form a separate social class and were largely [[Cultural assimilation|assimilated]] into the general population.{{sfnp|Chisholm|1911|p=947}}{{sfnp|Thomas|2008}} Very little of Cagot culture still exists, as most descendants of Cagots have preferred not to be known as such.{{sfnp|Thomas|2008}}

There are two museums dedicated to the history of the Cagots, one in the neighborhood of Bozate in the town of [[Arizkun]], Spain, the {{lang|es|Museo Etnográfico de los Agotes}} (Ethnographic Museum of the Agotes), opened by the sculptor and Cagot, {{ill|Xabier Santxotena|eu}} in 2003,{{r|Los agotes en Navarra}}{{sfnp|Álvarez|2019}} and a museum in the [[Château des Nestes]]<ref>{{cite web |language=fr |title=Musée des cagots |trans-title=Museum of the Cagots |url=http://www.tourisme-midi-pyrenees.com/musee-des-cagots/arreau/tabid/2271/offreid/b8b91c8c-f001-4259-9109-3bea548672dc/detail.aspx |website=Tourisme Midi Pyrenees |date= |access-date=12 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213025914/http://www.tourisme-midi-pyrenees.com/musee-des-cagots/arreau/tabid/2271/offreid/b8b91c8c-f001-4259-9109-3bea548672dc/detail.aspx |archive-date=13 December 2014}}</ref> in [[Arreau]], France.<ref>{{cite web |language=fr |title=Les cagots à Arreau |url=http://www.loucrup65.fr/pgie2824.htm |website=Les Hautes-Pyrénées et le village de Loucrup |date= |access-date=12 December 2014 |archive-date=29 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529054326/http://www.loucrup65.fr/pgie2824.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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In 2021 and 2022 [[Anti-vaccine activism|anti-vaccination]] and [[Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic#France|anti-vaccine passport protestors]] in France started wearing the red goose's foot symbol that Cagots were forced to wear, and handed out cards explaining the discrimination against the Cagots.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ravier |first=Christine |date=31 August 2021 |title=Manif anti pass sanitaire en Occitanie: qui sont les "cagots"? |language=fr |trans-title=Anti health pass demonstration in Occitania: who are the "cagots"? |url=https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/haute-garonne/toulouse/manif-anti-pass-sanitaire-en-occitanie-qui-sont-les-cagots-2230294.html |access-date=4 June 2022 |work=[[France 3]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604141122/https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/haute-garonne/toulouse/manif-anti-pass-sanitaire-en-occitanie-qui-sont-les-cagots-2230294.html |archive-date=4 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Le Creusot/Autun/Chagny: France Robert (DLF) veut être « la porte-parole des méprisés du Covid » |language=fr |trans-title=Le Creusot / Autun / Chagny: France Robert (DLF) wants to be "the spokesperson for the despised of the Covid" |first=Antoine |last=Cantin-Galland |date=25 May 2022 |url=https://www.lejsl.com/elections/2022/05/25/france-robert-(dlf)-veut-etre-la-porte-parole-des-meprises-du-covid |access-date=4 June 2022 |work=[[Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703200929/https://www.lejsl.com/elections/2022/05/25/france-robert-(dlf)-veut-etre-la-porte-parole-des-meprises-du-covid |archive-date=3 July 2022}}</ref>