Editing Deux-Sèvres (section)

==In history and literature==
''Deux-Sèvres'' was one of the 83 original ''départements'' created during the [[French Revolution]] on 4 March 1790. The land had been part of the ancient province of [[Poitou]].

Departmental borders were changed in 1973 when the inhabitants of the little commune of [[:fr:Le Puy-Saint-Bonnet|Puy-Saint-Bonnet]] became formally [[Associated communes of France|associated]] with the rapidly growing adjacent commune of [[Cholet]], which is in the neighbouring department of [[Maine-et-Loire]]. To prevent the associated communes from being administered in separate departments, Puy-Saint-Bonnet was transferred into Maine-et-Loire.

Deux-Sevres features in ''Son Excellence Eugene Rougon'', a novel by Emile Zola in his Rougon-Macquart series, when Rougon visits Niort, the departmental capital, to open a new rail line to Angers (chapter 10).