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Poitou was a province
Provinces of France

The Kingdom of France was organised into provinces until March 4, 1790, when the establishment of the d?partement in France system superseded provinces....
 of west-central France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 whose capital city was Poitiers
Poitiers

Poitiers is a city on the Clain in west central France. It is a commune in France and the capital of the Vienne d?partement in France and of the Poitou-Charentes r?gion in France....
.

The region of Poitou was called Thifalia
Taifals

The Taifals, Taifali, Taifalae, Tayfals, or Theifali were a barbarian people settled by the late Roman Empire in Poitou in the fourth century....
 (or Theiphalia) in the sixth century.

There is a marsh
Marsh

In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland which is subject to frequent or continuous flood . Typically the water is shallow and features Poaceaees, Juncaceaees, Phragmites, typhas, Cyperaless, and other herbaceous plants....
land called the Poitevin marsh
Marais Poitevin

The Marais Poitevin , also known as Venise Verte is a marsh region in Western France, a remnant of the former Gulf of Poitou. With a surface area of 970 km?, it is the largest marsh on the Atlantic coast and the second largest of the whole country....
 (French Marais Poitevin) on the gulf of Poitou, on the west coast of France, just north of La Rochelle
La Rochelle

La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime Departments of France....
.

Many of the Acadian
Acadian

The Acadians are the descendants of the seventeenth-century France French colonial empires who settled in Acadia . Although today most of the Acadians and Qu?b?cois are francophone Canadians, Acadia was founded in a geographically separate region from Quebec leading to their two distinct cultures....
s who settled in what is now Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada....
 beginning in 1604 and later to New Brunswick
New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only Constitution of Canada bilingual province in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton....
, came from the region of Poitou.






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Poitou was a province
Provinces of France

The Kingdom of France was organised into provinces until March 4, 1790, when the establishment of the d?partement in France system superseded provinces....
 of west-central France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 whose capital city was Poitiers
Poitiers

Poitiers is a city on the Clain in west central France. It is a commune in France and the capital of the Vienne d?partement in France and of the Poitou-Charentes r?gion in France....
.

The region of Poitou was called Thifalia
Taifals

The Taifals, Taifali, Taifalae, Tayfals, or Theifali were a barbarian people settled by the late Roman Empire in Poitou in the fourth century....
 (or Theiphalia) in the sixth century.

There is a marsh
Marsh

In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland which is subject to frequent or continuous flood . Typically the water is shallow and features Poaceaees, Juncaceaees, Phragmites, typhas, Cyperaless, and other herbaceous plants....
land called the Poitevin marsh
Marais Poitevin

The Marais Poitevin , also known as Venise Verte is a marsh region in Western France, a remnant of the former Gulf of Poitou. With a surface area of 970 km?, it is the largest marsh on the Atlantic coast and the second largest of the whole country....
 (French Marais Poitevin) on the gulf of Poitou, on the west coast of France, just north of La Rochelle
La Rochelle

La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime Departments of France....
.

Many of the Acadian
Acadian

The Acadians are the descendants of the seventeenth-century France French colonial empires who settled in Acadia . Although today most of the Acadians and Qu?b?cois are francophone Canadians, Acadia was founded in a geographically separate region from Quebec leading to their two distinct cultures....
s who settled in what is now Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada....
 beginning in 1604 and later to New Brunswick
New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only Constitution of Canada bilingual province in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton....
, came from the region of Poitou. After the Acadians were deported
Deportation

Deportation generally means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The expulsion of natives is also called banishment, exile, or penal transportation....
 by the British
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 beginning in 1755, a number of Acadians eventually took refuge in Poitou and in Québec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
. A large portion of these refugee
Refugee

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecutionOwing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality,...
s also migrated to Louisiana
Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
 in 1785 and following years became known as Cajuns (see Cajun
Cajun

Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles and peoples of other ethnicities with whom the Acadians eventually intermarried on the semitropical frontier....
s).

Perhaps paradoxically, during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Poitou had been a hotbed of Huguenot
Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestantism Reformed Church of France of France from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries....
 (French Calvinist) activity among the nobility and bourgeoisie and was severely impacted by the French Wars of Religion
French Wars of Religion

The French Wars of Religion is the name given to a period of civil war and military operations, primarily between France Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism , which also involved the factional struggles between the aristocratic houses of France such as the House of Bourbon and House of Guise ....
 (1562-1598).

Post revocation of the Edit of Nantes in 1685, a strong counter-reformation effort was made by the French Roman Catholic Church, this in part was subsequently in 1793 responsible for the three year long open revolt against the French Revolutionary Government in the Bas-Poitou (Département of Vendée
Vendée

The Vend?e [] is a departments of France in the Pays-de-la-Loire region in west central France, on the Atlantic Ocean. The name Vend?e is taken from the Vend?e River which runs through the south-eastern part of the department....
). Indeed during Napoleon’s Hundred Days in 1815, the Vendée stayed loyal to the Restoration Monarchy of King Louis XVIII and Napoleon was forced to send 10,000 troops under General Lamarque to pacify the region.

Poitou Donkeys

The Baudet de Poitou
Baudet de Poitou

The Baudet de Poitou is a breed of donkey originating in the Poitou region of France. One of the most distinctive donkey breeds, it is also among the rarest and least-known....
 is a distinctive and rare breed of donkey
Donkey

The 'donkey' or 'ass', Equus africanus asinus, is a Domestication member of the Equidae or horse family, and an Odd-toed ungulates. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the Wild Ass, E....
 associated with the region.

In Fiction


  • Large parts of the "Angelique
    Angelique (series)

    Angelique is series of 13 France historical adventure books by the novelist duo Anne Golon and Serge Golon. Some of these books were then adapted into 5 popular movies....
    " series of historical novels take place in 17th Century Poitou.


See also

  • Count of Poitiers
    Count of Poitiers

    Among the people who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers are:*Guerin of Poitiers *Hatton *Renaud of Poitiers *Bernard I of Poitiers ...
     for a list of the Comtes de Poitou.
  • Poitou-Charentes
    Poitou-Charentes

    Poitou-Charentes is an Regions of France in central western France comprising four departments of France: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-S?vres and Vienne....
     for the present-day région including Poitiers
    Poitiers

    Poitiers is a city on the Clain in west central France. It is a commune in France and the capital of the Vienne d?partement in France and of the Poitou-Charentes r?gion in France....
    .
  • Poitevin
    Poitevin

    The word Poitevin can mean:* From or related to Poitou or to the town of Poitiers * Poitevin , the language spoken in the Poitou* Poitevin , a breed of dog from the Poitou...
    , the French regional language spoken in Poitou (Saintongeais is for Saintonge
    Saintonge

    Saintonge is a small region on the Atlantic Ocean coast of France within the d?partement Charente-Maritime, west and south of Charente in the administrative region of Poitou-Charentes....
    ).


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