Zuberoa, gizarte eleaniztuna: hizkuntzen erabilera XIX. mendearen bukaeran

Abstract

At the end of the XIX century, the Third French Republic has turned the French language into the main symbol of the nation and was conducting a policy to integrate rural areas into the official and main culture. In the Basque region, the clergy were a strong supporter of the Basque and used it to confront republican agents. But how was this confrontation supposed to take place, considering that the Soule was a multilingual region? This paper aims at explaining from the point of view of the “history from below” the strategies used and developed by the lower classes to adapt to the historical context they were getting through.