Books set in Poitou, France

The hedged farm country of the Deux-Sèvres, inland from the marsh: a farm servant before the Great War, and a girl growing up in the Mellois after 1945.

1 place, 2 books,

1997
Fille de la terre
1997 · Geneviève Proust-Bouffard · memoirMellois, Poitou
Growing up on a farm in the Mellois, in the Deux-Sèvres, from 1945 to 1970.
1920
Nêne
1920 · Ernest Pérochon · novel
A farm servant in the bocage of the Deux-Sèvres gives herself to a widower’s children.

Updated October 2026