Poitou

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a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay

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Poitou-Charentes

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The Poitou, pronounced pwatu, is one of the rarest endangered farm breeds in the world, with about 100 pure Poitou left.

It is believed they originated in Poitou, an area of France.

Only 100 in the world; Rare endangered Poitou born at Davis Farmland

Annie said: "I phoned a lady in France looking to buy a llama, and ended up with two Poitou donkeys which I fell in love with.

Annie's fight to save the big donkeys; ANIMALS

Cannon Hall Farm has housed donkeys for the past 25 years but about eight years ago, they settled on the Poitou as their breed of choice.

Ass-standing arrival at farm

All make full use of available printed and manuscript sources from Poitou, supplemented by outside evidence.

Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France

The eminent jurist and west country native Jean Bodin, officiating at the extraordinary sessions (grands jours) of Poitou's sovereign courts held in Poitiers in 1562, while lodging with a distinguished townswoman, heard from her an elaborate account of more than fifty ways to cause impotence or castration magically through the nouement.(25)

Magical emasculation, popular anticlericalism, and the limits of the Reformation in western France circa 1590

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