To be accepted by the village they had to take on some Languedoc ways. Daguerre became Guerre; if Pierre had used the Basque form of his name, Betrisantz or even Petri, he now changed it. Sanxi’s wife probably continued to carry baskets of grain on her head, but she restitched her headdress and the decorations on her skirt so as to fit in with her neighbors. At the parish mass, she would have to get used to the fact that here women did not push ahead of the men to make their offerings, did not go about the church to collect for the vestry, and did not serve as sacristans.16
