<P> In 1863, the first canine exhibition was held at the "Jardin d'Acclimatation" in Paris, France . The winner of the Dogue de Bordeaux was a female named Magentas . The Dogue de Bordeaux was then given the name of the capital of its region of origin, today's Dogue de Bordeaux . </P> <P> During the 1960s, a group of breeders of the Dogue de Bordeaux in France, headed by Raymond Triquet, worked on the rebuilding of the foundation of the breed . In 1970, a new standard was written for the breed, with the most recent update in 1995 . This standard is the basis of the standard written for the AKC in 2005 . </P> <P> Although the Dogue de Bordeaux first arrived in the USA in the 1890s for the show ring, the first documented Dogues de Bordeaux of modern times appeared in 1959, Fidelle de Fenelon; and in 1968, Rugby de la Maison des Arbres . Between 1969 and 1980, imported Dogues de Bordeaux in the USA were scarce, limited to a few breeders who worked closely with the French Dogue de Bordeaux Club, the SADB . The breed was first "officially" introduced to American purebred enthusiasts in an article written in 1982 and by the American anthropologist, Dr. Carl Semencic for "Dog World" magazine . That article, entitled "Introducing the Dogue de Bordeaux", was followed by chapters dedicated to the Dogue in Semencic's books on dogs, published by T.F.H. Publications of Neptune, New Jersey . When Semencic's first article on the breed was published, there were no Bordeaux Dogues in the United States . There were 600 examples left in the world, mostly in France, the Netherlands and East Berlin, and the breed's numbers were on the decline . Much later, in 1989, the typical American family saw the Dogue de Bordeaux for the first time on the big screen in Touchstone's movie Turner & Hooch about a policeman and his canine partner, although many people did not know that the massive slobbering animal was a Dogue de Bordeaux . </P> <P> Since then, the Dogue de Bordeaux has taken hold in the United States and can be found in greatly increasing numbers across the country . The Dogue de Bordeaux has been supported by multiple breed clubs throughout the years, and has finally found its way to full AKC recognition through the assistance of the Dogue de Bordeaux Society of America . Since 1997, the DDBSA has helped bring the breed to the point in which full AKC recognition could be achieved . </P>

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