In their time, Jeanne d'Albret and her son Henri IV favored Bayonne's ham to their tables. The very serious treatise on junk, from Vauban, Minister of Louis XIV, who sees in the farming of the pig a way to fight against famine. He observes that 'this animal is of food so easy that everyone can raise it, having no peasant as poor as he is who cannot raise a pig of his own by year'. The simplicity of pig farming will make it the most consumed animal in the Middle Ages in front of the sheep and the beef.
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