224 A HISTORY OP THE PERCHEEON HOESE 



Cheri, foaled in 1880, an iron-gray standing 18 hands 

 high, is in the haras registry as approved for 1883, 

 receiving the same stipend as Brilliant. It will be 

 noted from this that three-year-old horses now began 

 to receive official recognition. M. Aveline also had 

 Margot, a dark-gray horse, foaled in 1878, 16.2 hands 

 high, that was approved and served in 1883 with a 

 pension similar to that accorded Cheri and Brilliant. 

 During the succeeding years we find the names of 

 the bay horse Decide, Paul, a mouse-gray , (gris 

 souris), Monarque, a light-gray 17 hands high, Her- 

 cules, a black standing a little over 17 hands high, 

 and Bon Coeur, a black 16-hand horse foaled in 1881, 

 Sultan (362), Vulcain, Bon Courage, Dragon, Haut- 

 bois, Fronton, Chichi, Etradegant, Etudiant and 

 Orangiste. 



In his mature years M. Aveline removed to the 

 fine estate of La Touche, near Nogent — his wife 

 being a Chouanard — and here he maintained for a 

 long series of years an establishment which wa.« 

 visited regularly, and always with keen enjoyment, 

 by all American buyers. He was one of the found- 

 ers of the Percheron Stud Book of France, and for 

 15 years prior to his death was the society's pres- 

 ident, a fact which illustrates well his standing in 

 the Perche. M. Aveline visited the Trans-Mississip- 

 pi Exposition at St. Louis, Mo., in 1904, and was 

 decorated by the French government with the cross 

 of Commandeur of the Merite Agricole and Chevalier 

 of the Legion of Honor. He was a man of rare 

 intelligence, sound business judgment, courage, tact 



