FRENCH REPUBLIC. M. I. C. 



5218-2. 

 Paris, March 15, 1909. 

 Ministry of War, 



General Staff of The Army, 

 2d Bureau. 

 My Dear Captain:* 



You informed me of a letter which was addressed to 

 you on the 15th February last by the Office of the Chief of 

 Staff in Washington, in which permission was requested to 

 translate, have printed and published the work entitled: 



"Notes d' equitation repondant au questionnaire de 

 I'Ecole d'Application de Cavalerie, Carrousels militaires et 

 reprises d'officiers" (latest edition.) 



I hasten to inform you that the American General Staff 

 may act with entire liberty in this matter. 



Very respectfully, my dear Captain, etc., 



Lieut. Colonel, Chief of 2d Bureau, 



(Sgd) L. Chere. 

 * Translation by Captain W. S. Guignard, 2d Field Artillery, of 

 a letter addressed to him as Military Attach^ of the Legation of 

 the United States at Paris, France. 



TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. 



The arragement of the original text has been retained 

 except that "Training for Military Races," Conditioning a 

 Hunter" and ''Conditioning for Endurance Races" have 

 been placed last as containing information rarely required. 



Notes on "High School," "Training of Sauteurs," 

 "Work between the Posts" and "Class Exhibitions," as 

 well as the descriptions of the French equipment and of the 

 French and German school method of holding the reins, 

 have been omitted as not applicable to our service. 



Only three weeks before the manuscript of this book 

 was sent to the press, a translation of the same text by 1st 

 Lieutenant F. P. Lahm, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, was 

 received from the Second (Military Information) Division 

 of the (General Staff. Lieutenant Lahm's work has been 

 heely consulted. As might have been expected, many dis- 

 similarities in the two translations are noticeable, but 

 niaterinl differences are due mainly to the endeavor on the 

 part of this Board to adopt terms that could be used in 

 commands and that would not conflict with the language of 

 cxistini^ drill regulations. 



