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You said studbook!
Rightly so, studbooks are finding favour with the BNF. You said studbook! So, let's get started! Let's start with Larousse: stud-book, stud-books, masculine noun (English word, from stud, stud farm, and book, book). Genealogical book for the horse species, of …
12 December 2024
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Guillaume Henry “I have no shortage of projects in terms of equestrian culture”.
And that's two! A Chevalier of the Ordre du Mérite Agricole for a number of years, Guillaume Henry was made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the interesting colloquium on the horse in Paris through …
03 September 2024
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Equestrian sport at the 1924 Paris Olympics
It was in Colombes... a hundred years before Versailles! From 1895 to 1943, Le Sport Universel illustré , a weekly sports paper as its name suggests, was the equivalent of what the daily newspaper L'Équipe is today. But while this …
27 June 2024
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From book to book: galloping for summer
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 …
07 October 2023
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Bartabas
We really enjoyed Bartabas' latest show, Irish Travellers, when we went to see it last December as a family - where all tastes are catered for. Not just for us, apparently, as it was extended until this spring (April 2). …
13 March 2023
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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 …
05 March 2023
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“Saumur” key to a mutual collection?
Saumur, Capital of the Horse ? Capital of horse riding and the equestrian arts ? Capital of knowledge, at least in France, on the subject of horses? Saumur as the one and only showcase for this knowledge, where researchers and …
12 July 2022
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"One day we’ll be there, big boy » or the destiny of a jumping show trainer.
For once, we'd like to talk to you about a recent book, published in March by Normandie Roto Impression. Jean-Maurice Bonneau has just published a book in the Arts Equestres collection from Acts South: On y sera un jour mon …
26 April 2022
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Digital translation of René Bacharach's table
The synoptic table of French equestrians from the 16th to the 20th century by René Bacharach, originally published in a supplement to Année Hippique in 1962, is now available in an enhanced digital version by La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval …
11 October 2021
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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), …
15 July 2021
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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 …
10 May 2021
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At the heart of the Condé Museum's Cabinet des Livres with Marie Pierre Dion
One cannot enter the “Cabinet des Livres” set up by the Duke of Aumale (1822-1897) in the “little castle” of Chantilly, also known as the Condé Museum, without feeling a strong emotion, a real shock. If that's what the man …
15 March 2021
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The essential collection of the Leipzig University Library on the horse
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 …
07 December 2020
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A Guided Tour of the Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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 …
21 September 2020
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Nicolas Blondeau, with his head and hands on the horse
“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 …
07 April 2020
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The Agreement with Alfort, not only a nice project, but also necessary
– 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 …
10 February 2020
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The horse at the heart of the futuristic “Médiathèque de Deauville”
On October 11, 2019, Philippe Augier, Mayor of Deauville and promoter of the so-called “Médiathèque 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 …
19 October 2019
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Tim Cox's Great Library
With more than 18,000 references and therefore as many books and documents devoted exclusively to racing and thoroughbreds collected over forty years, Tim Cox could appear to be eccentric, bulimic, insane. And yet, it was a completely different man, discreet, …
17 September 2019
