” The time to calibrate is approaching, eight days before a purge has to be made at sunset of the Moon, the Sign of Chancre or Scorpio to steal the blood.” (…) Once done, take two or three days after opening the two veins of the neck, the waning phase of the Moon in the […]
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The Quadrature of the circle
The square circle is a perfect oxymoron, which is very useful to riders. This roundabout figure combines circular displacement with straight lines that make up a square. The rider draws a square by running a quarter turn with the waist to turn at each angle and go back to the next angle. When it is […]
Baucher, an art of the representation
The famous squire François Baucher was not only a great rider. In addition to his well-known writings, he published author name, a magnificent album on paper, which presented the results of his work on three of his horses with the pedagogical concern of the “before and after”. This is how Partisan appears as a vicious […]
Stendhal, a horseman?
Did you know? The author of The Charterhouse of Parma and of The Red and the Black would have been a great horse aficionado, if we believe the essay written by the Count De Comminges. This ancient French cavalry official and prolific author of books on horses devoted almost sixty pages to try to answer […]
The horse in Diderot and d’Alembert
The goal of The Encyclopedia or Reasoned Dictionary of Sciences, Arts and Crafts was “gathering the scattered knowledge on the surface of the earth, exposing the general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to men who will come after us”. The first volume of the colossal work of Diderot and […]