" But the promptness with which we can put new 

 horses in the ranks is not the only advantage the new 

 method presents ; it guarantees, besides, the preservation 

 of the horse; it develops his faculties and his powers; 

 .these increase by the harmony and proper application 

 of the forces among themselves and by their rational 

 and opportune use. It is not the immoderate employ- 

 ment of force which conquers a rebellious horse, but 

 the well-combined use of an ordinary force. The 

 Baucher system ought to be considered eminently pre" 

 servative, since the breaking, being well graduated 

 and well combined, cannot have an injurious influ- 

 ence upon the horse'' s physique / and his forces being 

 at the disposition of the rider, it is he, the absolute 

 dispenser of these forces, who is responsible for their 

 duration or premature destruction. * * * I repeat it, 

 that the new method would be a great benefit, an indis- 

 putable improvement for cavalry. * * * j pray then 

 for its adoption, and ardently desire its prompt introduc- 

 tion into the cavalry. (Signed) De Novital." 



Extract from the Spectateur Militaire : 



" Passionately fond of a science that, from his child- 

 hood, has been the object of studies as productive as they 

 were persevering, M. Baucher, after having obtained 

 from the horse a submission almost magical, has not been 

 willing to be the only one to profit by his meditations ; 

 he has put them cleverly together, and his written 

 method is now in the hands of all those who occupy them- 

 selves with horsemanship. * * * The division of 

 dragoons, and the instructors of the different bodies 

 of troops of horse that composed a part of the camp of 

 Luneville, intended to execute, after the principles of the 

 new method, and in the presence of their ro3'^al high- 

 nesses, the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours, equestrian 



