The Forgotten Untouchables of France (opens in new tab)

The Forgotten Untouchables of France. For centuries, a mysterious community in southwestern Europe endured extreme discrimination with no clear cause.When it comes to the issue of difference, D. Hack Tuke in an 1880 issue of The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland noted that "I have been unable to obtain any evidence which marks the Cagots out as a people distinct from the surrounding inhabitants." No marker of race, ethnicity, or religion differentiated them...