Le fonds Léonce Beaumadier : le folklore réinventé

local costumes in use until the Interwar. Finally, he recorded in numerous notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts, all the information collected in the departments of Aude and Hérault, from the last practitioners, as well as his own analyses. Léonce Beaumadier does not work alone: he often consults his local counterparts, notably poet Clardeluna, alias Jeanne Barthès, as well as Montpellier dance master Léon Boulet, choreographer of Languedoc folklore, whose only known backups to date he made. Not consulted until 2008, the Léonce Beaumadier collection has since unveiled, thanks to institutional, academic and associative research, authentic treasures of the intangible cultural heritage of Languedoc.