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officer, who shoula come to study the system of M, 

 Baucher." 



The Minister of War immediately issued these three 

 orders, and also three additional ones : 



" 4th. M. Baucher, Jr., will repair to the camp at 

 Luneville and sojourn there during the months' of June, 

 July and August. The captain-instructors and one 

 lieutenant from the troops of horse stationed in the 

 neighborhood of Paris will be ordered to Luneville during 

 those months to study the Baucher system. 



*' 5th. M. Baucher, Jr., will receive an indemnity of 

 five hundred francs a month. 



" 6th. Each of the bodies of troops of horse and 

 establishments of unbroken horses will receive two 

 copies of the work entitled ' A New Method of Horse- 

 manship, by M. Baucher.' " 



Extract from the report of the Chef d'Escadrons 

 Grenier, appointed to the command of the officers 

 detached to Paris, by ministerial decision of the 20th of 

 May, 1842, to study the method of horsemanship of M. 

 Baucher : 



" The officers detached to Paris were of the number of 

 twenty-two, the captain-instructor and a lieutenant from 

 each regiment. * * * They exercised for thirty-nine 

 days. * * * These officers did not all arrive at Paris 

 with the belief that they could be taught anything. 

 One-half were captain-instructors, the rest, lieutenants, 

 intended to become the same. Thus, in the beginning, 

 there was very little confidence, on the part of the 

 officers, in their new professor, sometimes even opposi- 

 tion, but always zeal and good will. 



"Little by little, confidence came, opposition disap- 

 peared ; but only at the end of the first month, after 

 about twenty-five lessons, did all the officers, without 



