Razors hidden in the bush
- Originally, in Italian from Corsica, the word macchia means “field covered with weed or forest”. Subsequently, the term maki was used to refer to a Mediterranean ecosystem that can be found mainly in southeastern France and that has a wide variety of shrubs and thermophile trees.
It was called Maquisards or Maquis who were hiding in these camps to avoid compulsory military recruitment in the time of the Napoleonic wars. And later, during World War II, the members of the French resistance, especially in the field, took that name, as did the guerrillas who would later fight Franco.