The Marans, `Poule de Marans`, is a breed of chicken from the port town of Marans, in the département of Charente-Maritime, in the Poitou-Charentes region of western France. It was created with the local feral chickens descended from fighting game chickens carried from Indonesia and India. Those original Marandaise fowl were `improved` for th... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marans