With a strange name like 'Billy', this is not a breed that you are soon to forget. The Billy dog is not named after a man named William as you may suspect, but actually after a location within its native France, named Chateau de Billy, where it is thought to have been developed by a breeder named Monsieur Rivault. Most of the Billy's scent hound ancestors are now extinct but would have likely included older versions of the Poitevin, the Montemboeuf, Ceris and Layre. It is widely believed that all of the breeds from which the Billy descended were highly revered as hunters and used by French nobility at the time.
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