When foreigners talk about the wildlife in France, they’re usually referring to Paris, or maybe St. Tropez after dark. But among the French, it’s the Camargue, the marshy, mosquito-ridden delta near Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, where the Rhône River empties into the Mediterranean.
France’s equivalent of the Wild West is populated by outlaws, rebels, cowboys (known as gardians), pink flamingos, black bulls, and free-ranging white horses. Its residents tend to thumb their noses at bourgeois politesse, and truculently prefer to lead their lives with minimal government interference. Like the Mississippi Delta, it’s a good place to live off the grid or maybe even go feral.
