Recording of the conference "Equestrian Sports: Games and Stakes  — The Horse at the Château de Versailles from the 17th Century to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games"

Opening
Laurent Salomé, Alain Francqueville, Pascal Buléon, Igmar de Vos

- The horse and the Château de Versailles: three centuries of shared history
Karine Mc Grath, historian and head of the archives department of the Château de Versailles.

Pierre-François Prioux, president of the Société de Vénerie (French hunting society)

- Riding at Versailles from the 17th century to the present day: characteristics and developments
Guillaume Henry : riding instructor, publisher, horse historian and writer.

- Dressage at the Olympic Games: a development for which General Decarpentry laid the foundations. Perspectives.
Alain Francqueville, former écuyer of the Cadre Noir. President of the Mission pour la culture équestre.

- Pierre de Coubertin and the great Olympic manège (1894-1924)
Arthur Gallois: doctoral candidate (Unil/Paris 1) in contemporary history and research officer at the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF).
Patrick Clastres: professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lausanne (Unil), director of the Unil Centre for Olympic Studies and the Globalisation of Sport.
Arnaud Richard: full professor of language sciences at the University of Toulon and president of the French National Olympic Academy (ANOF).
Carine Duteil: senior lecturer (HDR) in language sciences at the University of Limoges, member of the French National Olympic Academy (ANOF).

- Mixed-gender competition in equestrian sport: an asset for the International Olympic Committee (IOC)?
Sylvine Pickel-Chevalier, full professor, geographer, ESTHUA, University of Angers.

- Equestrian sport at the Olympic Games, between humanism and « animalism »
Jean-Pierre Digard, emeritus research director at the CNRS, member of the French Academy of Agriculture.

Testimony of Pierre Durand (Olympic show jumping champion, Seoul 1988)

- Conclusion
Xavier Libbrecht, Hervé Morin, Serge Lecomte

 

Versailles, conference of 1 August 2024, (from L. to R.) Mauro Checcoli, Hervé Morin, Pierre Durand, Xavier Libbrecht, Pascal Buléon