Les Franciscaines - Deauville (Moati-RiviĂšre)

The horse at the heart of the futuristic “MĂ©diathĂšque de Deauville”

On October 11, 2019, Philippe Augier, Mayor of Deauville and promoter of the so-called “MĂ©diathĂšque Les Franciscaines”, signed a contract with Éric Hoyeau, President of Arqana, one of the world’s leading racehorse auction agencies, whose ties to Deauville are as obvious as they are historic, under which the operator undertook to provide financial support for […]

Ephrem Houël Inventeur de la science hippique et créateur des premiÚres courses au trot en France

Ephrem Houël tribute in bookstores

The Rocher publishing house has just published a biography of Ephrem HouĂ«l. It is the posthumous fruit of work of the journalist, writer and historian Jean-Pierre Reynaldo, to whom we owe numerous books on the trot such as Le Trotteur français, Le Trotteur americain and Charlie Mills, le cocher des dieux. In 1829, Ephrem HouĂ«l […]

Jean-Louis-Gouraud

A Jean-Louis Gouraud fund in Deauville

Journalist, writer, globetrotter, declared a pilgrim before the Lord after his Paris-Moscow trip in 1990 “to theTurcomana”, that is, in relief with two horses (Le PĂ©rĂ©grin emerveillĂ©, Actes Sud publishing house, 2012, Renaudot Pocket Prize), Jean-Louis Gourand is a figure of French cultural landscape “of the horse”. Curious, sometimes a little provocative, insatiable and indefatigable, […]