Count Antoine Cartier D'Aure
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Viscount Antoine Henri Philippe Léon Cartier d'Aure (2 June 1799 – 6 April 1863) was a French riding-master, and author of important
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. He was ''écuyer en chef'' of the
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of
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, and later to the
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. He was made an officer of the
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in 1849.


Life

Cartier d'Aure was born on 2 June 1799 (15
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, in the
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in south-west France, the posthumous son of Antoine Cartier d'Aure of Pointis-de-Rivière and Rose-Claire Barthélémie de Foucaud, who was from the
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. In 1815 he left the academy of Saint-Cyr with the rank of '' sous-lieutenant''. He was sent to the
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to learn to ride, and trained under Pierre-Marie d'Abzac; he was made an ''écuyer'' in 1821. Under
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he was an ''écuyer cavalcadour''. In 1823, after service in Spain, he was made a knight of the
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. From 26 February 1847 he was ''écuyer en chef'' of the
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. In 1849 he was promoted to officer of the Légion d'Honneur. He retired on 17 July 1854, and went to live at
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. In 1858 he was appointed ''écuyer en chef'' and inspector of the imperial stables to the
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. From 1861 he was inspector-general of the imperial stud. He died on 6 April 1863 at the
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in
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. He had married three times, to Clémence-Etienette Le Noir de Pas de Loup, to Louise Ursule Chapelles de Courteilles, and lastly to Adrienne-Olympe de Bentzon, who survived him.


Published works

The published works of Cartier d'Aure include but probably are not limited to the following: * ''Aperçu sur la situation des chevaux en France, par M. le Vte d'Aure,...'' 1826 * ''Projet relatif aux chevaux et aux écoles d'équitation, par le Vte d'Aure'' 1828 * ''Bourrienne et ses erreurs volontaires ou involontaires'' (2 volumes, in-12°) 1830 * ''Traité d'équitation, par M. le Vte d'Aure...'' Paris: Mme Leclère, 1834 * ''Situation chevaline de la France, par le Vte d'Aure'' 1835 * ''De l'Amélioration du cheval en France'' 1836 * ''De l'industrie chevaline en France et des moyens pratiques d'en assurer la prospérité'' Paris: Chez Léautey et Lecointe 1840 * ''Observations sur la nouvelle méthode d'équitation, par M. le Vte d'Aure'' 1842 * ''Quelques Observations sur la brochure du Mis Oudinot (″Des Remontes, de leurs rapports avec l'administration des haras″), par M. le Vte d'Aure'' 1842 * ''Réponse de M. le vicomte d'Aure a un article du Spectateur militaire du 15 janvier 1843 (signé Guillaume-Auguste D.) en faveur de la nouvelle méthode d'équitation.'' aris, Imprimerie de Ve Dondey-Dupré, 1843* ''Utilité d'une école normale d'équitation, de son influence sur l'éducation du cheval léger, sur les besoins de l'agriculture et sur les ressources qu'elle peut offrir à la classe pauvre, par M. le Vte d'Aure'' 1845 * ''Traité d'équitation illustré: précédé d'un aperçu des diverses modifications et changements apportés dans l'équitation depuis le XVIe siècle jusqu'à nos jours ...'' Paris: A. Leneveu, 1847. "Illustrated treatise of equitation ..." (the 3rd edition, according to Brunet) * ''Des haras et de la situation chevaline en 1852'' Saumur: .n.1852, "Of stud-farms and the situation of the horse in 1852" * ''Cours d'équitation'' Paris: J. Dumaine 1853 * ''De la Question équestre et de Madame Isabelle à l'École de cavalerie, par le Cte d'Aure'' 1855 * ''Encore la question chevaline'' Paris: Dumaine 1860


References


Further reading

* Étienne Saurel ''Histoire de l'Équitation'', 1971. Japanese translation version of 2005. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cartier dAure, Antoine Dressage trainers Classical horsemanship 1799 births 1863 deaths Writers on horsemanship