A short tour of equestrian France: the Prix du Jockey Club (Gr1) at the beginning of June and, for the specialists, an absolute record, that of Ace Impact who not only won but also set the best time ever recorded on the 2100 m Chantilly track. A fortnight later, it was the Prix de Diane […]
Baucher would have been 227 years old, but “The Method” hasn’t aged a day
The colloquium organised on 14 March 2023 to mark the 150th anniversary of François Baucher’s death by the Comité Régional d’Equitation d’Ile-de-France (CREIF), chaired by Emmanuel Feltesse, in the mess hall of the Célestins barracks (Garde Républicaine) in Paris, thanks to the support of Colonel Gabriel Cortès, gave all those privileged enough to attend a […]
It’s a fine wild essay!
If he had been born in France, and not at the maternity hospital of the “Sœurs de la Miséricorde” in Montreal, on 17 April 1968, we might have been talking about the “sixty-eigth” syndrome to try and explain the incredible career of Éric Lamaze, a gifted modern show jumper. A journey made up of many […]
Patrizia Arquint, the Italian researcher behind her work
Patrizia Arquint (1955) is a well-known expert on Italian Renaissance manuscripts and equestrian works. But don’t think she’s claiming it. The extremely discreet Mrs. Arquint, holder of the Chair of Romance Philology at the University of Florence (prof. Lucia Lazzerini), doctor of research (Doctor Europaeus, XIX cycle) at the European Doctoral School of Romance Philology […]
When the history of the Norman cavalry is really embroidered…
Interview with Pierre Bouet, Honorary Lecturer and Honorary Director of the Office Universitaire d’Études Normandes. It is quite a story, that of the conquest of England by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, between 1064 and 1066. And that story is certainly well and truly embroidered, over 70 meters long and half a meter high, […]