In 1984, in Barcelona, an assembly of the CONSEU (Council of the Nations Without State), to which participated, as outside guest, the institute of Occitan Estudis (National Office, IEO Sector Musica, IEO-31...) proposed the creation of a defense and the promotion of the languages say " minorisées " of Europe, every linguistic area having to celebrate his/her/its own language. In Toulouse, raising the interest of such a feast but taking to opposite his/her/its strategy, and leaning on works and the theoretical reflections of Felix Castan to consider that the " occitanistes cannot defend their own language efficiently that while defending all languages of the world, threatened or already victims of minorisation, eclipse, disappearance, the IEO-Musica proposed to its partners, and notably to the IEO-31, main person responsible of the organization of the feast, to invite other languages to participate at the demonstration and to widen his/her/its objectives according to this principle.
