La race oubliée investigates reports and traditions surrounding hairy, humanlike beings said to have lived in the French landscape. Drawing on local accounts, regional history, and folklore, the book treats the “hommes velus” as a persistent cultural figure rather than a simple curiosity. Its focus is on how such stories were recorded, remembered, and interpreted across different parts of France, connecting popular belief with questions of identity, rural memory, and the boundaries between legend and historical testimony. The work is best understood as a nonfiction exploration of cryptozoological and folkloric traditions, offering readers a French-language study of forgotten or marginalized narratives about mysterious beings in the country’s past.

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