On one of the few hot days in Touraine during August 2008 in Touraine we came across a ploughing contest at La Fosse Richoux, near Montrichard, by the crossroads of the road from Pontelevoy and Montrichard with that from Bourré to Chaumont.
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I’ll leave the pictures to tell their story:
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