Carcahuttes

Carcahuttes is the pejorative dialectal name given of XVIe century at the beginning of the XXe century with the inhabitants of Audresselles by the inhabitants of Ambleteuse and with those of Ambleteuse by those of Audresselles (shore of the Pas-de-Calais). The word designated inhabitants of huts made up of a hull (carcass) of Flobart turned over, the " skittles in the air".

In 1908, the painter Edouard Doigneau (1865-1954) painted a splendid painting representing of the carcahuttes in front of their dwelling.

Confrontations with the knife regularly took place at sea between the fishermen of the two communities when one of them had cut the nets belonging to a fisherman of the other village. The worst insult being the word " carcahutte".

The confrontation ceased with the marriages between inhabitants of the two villages, the installation of many Audressellois with Ambleteuse and especially with the evolution of the company and the end of the Endogamie and the marriages between blood relations after the Second world war.

Nowadays, the " term; carcahutte" is not known any more new arrivals in the two villages.

The municipality of Equihen-Beach (Pas-de-Calais) undertook in 2006 the construction of several " skittles in the air" in the municipal camp-site with flobarts offered by inhabitants of the villages. They are dwellings of holidays suggested with the hiring (source of this paragraph: " the Voice of North " from Boulogne, May 27th, 2006 page 15).

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