Barbet:French National Treasure

Common poodle ancestors website


 

http://partipoodle.homestead.com/content/about_poodles/about_poodles_history_pre1900.html

There was a separation of the Poodle and the Barbet when the standard was written in 1891 and the Barbet d'Arrêt became an official French breed and was a rustic, unsophisticated dog which had nothing to do with a show groomed poodle.