 "Jaka" was prepared during the festival by sealing shredded zebu meat with suet in a decorative clay jar; this confit would then be conserved in an underground pit for twelve months to be served at the next year's "fandroana".In November 1943, a "fandroana" was held in Toulouse by the authorities of Vichy France.The "Chef d'état" Philippe Pétain was dressed as a Merina king and received a wooden zebu sculpture from the "tirailleurs malgaches" (Malagasy soldiers) stranded in France after the British invasion of Madagascar.