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Salon International de l'Agriculture

Paris's great farm show at Porte de Versailles, where a cow chosen as the year's égérie meets the President and the country.

Entrée du Salon international de l'agriculture (Paris, 3-11 mars 2007)
Photo: Ji-Elle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cattle at Salon International de l'Agriculture

Every year at the end of February, the Paris exhibition centre at Porte de Versailles becomes the largest farm in France for nine days. The Salon International de l'Agriculture brings together several thousand animals and hundreds of thousands of visitors, with the judging of the Concours Général Agricole for livestock, wine and food. Each year one cow is chosen as the égérie, the face of the show on its posters, from a different breed, and she is visited by politicians, including the President on the opening day, which has become a fixed point of French political life. The halls of regional food and drink are as busy as the cattle lines.

The breeds

NormandeThe dairy cow of Normandy, often in the spotlight in Paris.CharolaisThe white beef breed of Burgundy.MontbéliardeThe red pied dairy cow of the Jura and Comté cheese.SalersThe deep red mountain cow of the Cantal.

Also part of it, and being written: Limousin cattle (The red-gold beef breed of the Limousin.), Aubrac cattle (The fawn cow of the southern plateau.).

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Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "Paris International Agricultural Show" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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