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Nicolas Blondeau — Crédit photo Florence Blondeau

Nicolas Blondeau, with his head and hands on the horse

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Christelle Passera

“Humanity believes it can live without animals by urbanizing societies and delegating intelligence to digital systems. If this were to happen, human societies would be inhuman.” This is what we will remember from the long interview that the professional horseman Nicolas Blondeau, founder and leader of a horse training method and of a company that […]

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Christophe Degueurce, directeur de l’École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort

The Agreement with Alfort, not only a nice project, but also necessary

February 7, 2022February 7, 2022 Marie-Laure Peretti

– The Agreement with Alfort, not only a nice project, but also necessary The World Horse Library, after the National Library of France, the IFCE, and the Deauville Media Library, closed the 2019 financial year with the signing of an agreement with the National Veterinary School of Alfort, which manages the funds distributed among the […]

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The reception of the book Art équestre, by Xenophon

February 1, 2022February 3, 2022 Marie-Laure Peretti

How did Xenophon’s book “Art équestre” come down to us? What was its influence on the writers who have dealt with this subject, and particularly on the Renaissance squires, most of them being Italian? This is probably the most interesting part for us, bibliophiles, historians, collectors and others curious about the equestrian theme, of the […]

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Monsieur Ulrich Johannes Schneider directeur de la bibliothèque de l’Université de Leipzig

The essential collection of the Leipzig University Library on the horse

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Marie-Laure Peretti

Question: – What are the main characteristics of a university library today? Response of Mr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider, director of the famous library of the University of Leipzig, who gave us the following interview: It offers a space for study and research and, at the same time, accompanies the third mission of a university: to […]

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The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (1879-80) by Thomas Eakins.

A Guided Tour of the Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

September 21, 2020October 1, 2020 Marie-Laure Peretti

The wonderful story of the horse, through the passion it generates, the curiosity it incites, and the knowledge and modes of transmission it produces, brings together two universities, on both sides of the Atlantic. You may wonder why La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (The World Horse Library), located at Caen, in Normandy, France, and the […]

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