Poitou

Alvance also has castings plant in Poitou and auto wheel plant in Diors.

The marquis here keeps a kennel of 70 hunting hounds — half English foxhound and half French Poitou.

Once there were elm trees lining both sides of the Poitou here—nothing but stumps now, because over the last three years they’ve all been cut down for firewood.

Neighbours there told France Bleu Poitou she came from a "really generous family".

Today the beneficiaries are more likely to be in Poitou than in Paris.