Southwest France is Basque country like northern coast of Spain. But this is first I knew the Basques are into bull fighting like (most of) the rest of Spain and the first I knew bull fighting was allowed and occurred in France. Looking up in Wiki, it occurs across southern France over to Monaco. Who knew? Not me. Been to Bilbao and Aries in France.
Went to a Spain bull farm on a tour. Bulls are not permitted to see the cape till they enter the ring. So how do they pick bulls? They fight the cows at the farms & the best are deemed to produce the best bulls. The rest make good burgers.
How many bulls does Spain go thru a year? About 25K. Every little podunk town has a ring and 2-4 days of fights as part of what we'd call a county fair.