212 A HISTORY OF THE PERCHERON HORSE 



son Edmond, their forbears were recognized as 

 among the foremost breeders of the Perche. Per- 

 riot pere was born in 1810, and died in 1874. 



At the time when the great American demand 

 first set in prior to 1880 the three brothers, known 

 as Perriot d 'Amilly, Perriot de Cheneliere and Per- 

 riot de Champeau, were comparatively young men, 

 and while all were recognized as close judges of a 

 good horse, Mark W. Dunham was wont to credit 

 the younger brother Albert with being the shrewd- 

 est of the three. He of ten put it like this : "When- 

 ever they went out together picking up colts it 

 would inevitably be found when they were divided 

 up that Albert had the best ones." Be this as it 

 may, they were a most remarkable trio, and in the 

 great days that followed sold more high-priced 

 horses for export than all of their contemporaries 

 combined. ITnfortunately Albert died at an early 

 age in 1879, his decease being universally regarded 

 as a real calamity to the district. It was from Albert 

 that Mr. Dunham bought Africus (862), Bayard 

 (717), Margot d 'Amilly (795), Duke of Perche 

 (740), Favora (725) and Superior (730). 



The elder brother Louis was bom in February, 

 1835, on his father's farm of Amilly, in the com- 

 mime of Condeau, Orne, where he remained until 

 as a young man he went to live with his grand- 

 mother, the grandfather having died. In 1859, as 

 a young married man, he began his long and suc- 

 cessful career as a breeder of horses of the best 

 Percheron type on the farm known as Champeaux, 



