...Shelby T. McCloy Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE CAGOTS A DESPISED PEOPLE IN FRANCE* Shelby T. McCloy TRAVELER in France in the eighteenth century penetrating some of the farthest regions of the South and the West such as Bearn, Guyenne, Languedoc, and Brittany might have...

... in the fight. But a third group had no friends and no leaders. These were the Cagots, a group of uncertain racial origin living in the valleys of the Pyrenees and neighboring parts of southwestern France, who, according to tradition and most early writers describing them, were descendants of the Visigoths...