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cincts of the Louvre Palace on the Rue Rivoli ; a favor hitherto granted only to princes 

 of the blood royal and a few court favorites. By the way, we find in the memoirs of 

 the Marquis des Fourches, a description of a race which took place in 1685, during the 

 reign of Louis XIV, which was worthy of the palmy days of Guttenberg, N. J. In 

 1785, during the reign of Louis XVI, and only a few days before that monarch was 

 dragged from his bedroom at Versailles and hurried off to the guillotine on the Place de 

 la Concorde, there were races at Vincennes and Fontainbleau, the participants in which 

 were the Comte 1'Artois, afterward Charles X the Duke de Chartres, afterwards Duke 

 of Orleans; the Marquis de Conflans; the Duke de Lauzan; and the Duke de Fitz- 

 james; and some of these notables even ran horses in England. The Duke de Chartres 

 (then known as "Philippe Egalite") ran Cantator in the Derby of 1784 and had Con- 

 queror, Lambinos and Fortiture in his stable as late as 1790. 



About that time the Comte d'Artois bought Comus, by Otho and Barbary by Pan- 

 gloss; Glowworm by Eclipse and King Pepin by Turf were sold to the Duke de 

 Chartres, while the Marquis de Conflans bought Perois and leased Teucer. At tha 

 same' period, or thereabouts, several well-bred mares were sent over there for breeding 

 purposes. Among these were Dulcinea by Whistle Jacket; Sphynx by Marske, and 

 Helen by Conductor. The Revolution, however, sent all these into obscurity from 

 which they never emerged and nothing is known of their descendants. After the 

 Revolution was over and the Corsican lieutenant had promoted the First Empire, a stud 

 farm was started at Buc, near Versailles, but subsequently removed to Viroflay. All 

 this is merely given as prefactory to the foundation of the ^ociete' d' Encouragement. 

 It may not be out of place for me to give a list (found in Mr. Robert Black's History 

 of Racing in France) of stallions imported from England into France between the close 

 of the Revolution of 1793 and the formation of the French Jockey Club in 1833 : 



DATE 

 NAME SIRE LINK IMPORTATION 



Abron Whisker* E 1828 



Ad Libitum Whiskey E 1817 



Alford Pavilion H 1822 



Alfred Filho da Puta* H 1828 



Atom Phantom* H 1826 



Barelegs .- Tramp D E 1828 



Belmont Thunderbolt M 1831 



Ben Nevis Paynator M 1814 



Bijou Orvillet E 1818 



Borysthenes Smolensko M 1830 



Brigand XYZ H 1826 



Camerton Hambletoniant E 1818 



Captain Candid Cerberus E 1825 



Carbon Waxy* E 1828 



Charon Woful E 1827 



Cinder Woful E 1829 



Claude Haphazard H 1827 



Clayton Overton E 1815 



Coriolanus Gohanna E 1818 



Diamond Highflyer H 1818 



DIO Whitworth H 1818 



Doge of Venice Sir Oliver D H 1825 



Domenichino Vandyke Jr. H 1818 



Eastham Sir Oliver D H 1825 



Easton Stamford H 1813 



Egremont Skiddaw 1819 



