In France, to “sing like a Basque” means you sing “loudly, well, and often,” according to Mark Kurlansky’s Basque History of the World. And it is no wonder why on chant comme un Basque is a French ...

That’s especially the case when you look at what happened there. But you need to look beyond the recent history There’s a rich history of the area and its position in the world before the 20th Century ...