Abstract
The success of the fattening System of Lower Normandy can only be understod within the national framework : over two centuries at least, the Normand graziers have benefited from a privileged situation, at the heart of a country of lush pastureland located between an area supplying lean oxen (Poitou, Anjou, Maine, even Brittany) and a zone of consumption of «fat » oxen, the Paris market, which the animals could reach on foot, without suffering too much loss of weight on the way. The System rests on the displacement of large herds, the handling of large sums ofmoney, a risk-taking that can' t be denied ; it is rewarding : the capital tied up for the five to ten months necessary for fattening is increased by 39 % for the landlord of the Viette between 1840 and 1880. The System starts declining when the railways enable other regions of the west to send easily to Paris the oxen they too can fatten.
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