That Cheese Saved a Cow Breed.

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It is a cow and a cheese that sealed a pact. How did the Blue Vercors save the Villard-de-Lans? Requisitioned by the Germans during the Second World War, then abandoned to the benefit of more productive breeds, the villards did indeed disappear. A century ago, there were still 20,000 on the plateau, but only a few hundred at the end of the 1970s. To preserve it, the farmers united. It was at this moment in history that the cheese came into play.…