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tifully arched. The coat is short and fine, 
in colour white, with or without red-yellow 
patches. The height is from 24 inches to 
28 inches. It is sometimes referred to as the 
Chien blanc du Roi, the Baud, or Greffier. 
The famous Vendéen Griffon resembles 
no breed so closely as our rugged Otter- 
hound, although as a rule he is smaller 
and betrays less particularity in breeding. 
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but often darker in colour and longer in the 
body, is the Griffon Nivernais, of which 
Baron Joubert’s Bolivar is perhaps the best 
living specimen, and a popular and useful 
hound for rough work in the forest is 
attained by the crossing of these two 
strains. Of the Griffon Vendéen-Nivernais 
excellent working packs are kept by MM. 
Merle and Roday of Monthelon, M. Henri 
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PACK OF GRIFFONS VENDEENS AND VENDEENS-NIVERNAIS. 
THE PROPERTY OF M. HENRI BAILLET, VILLENAUXE (AUBE). 
Photograph by M. Rol et Cie., Paris. 
He is a dog of high upstanding shape, with 
an obviously sound constitution and meant 
by nature for the chase, which leads him 
often into waterways. The prevailing colour 
of his thick wiry coat is white or wheaten,, 
with orange, mouse grey, red or brown 
splotches. His head is large and imposing, 
ascending to a well-developed peak, the 
muzzle of good length, the nostrils ex- 
pansive, and the long ears hanging loose, 
sweeping the grass when his nose is lowered 
to the track of deer or boar. 
most pure of the race in France to-day are 
kept by M. Henri Baillet, whose Ronflo and 
Bacchus are admirably typical. 
Very similar to the rough Vendéen hound, 
The best and . 
Baillet of Villenauxe, and Baron Joubert, 
domaine de Givry. 
The Norman Hound, which appears to 
have been introduced in the time of Louis 
XIV., is adapted for the pursuit of all kinds 
of the larger game in the French forests. 
He is a heavy, strong dog, somewhat coarse 
in bone, in shape approaching the Blood- 
hound rather than our Foxhound. His head 
is long, the skull broad, and the forehead 
divided by two large frontal bumps. The 
skin of the head is very loose and wrinkled ; 
the muzzle is coarse, with lips thick and 
pendulous. The eyes, which are full and 
gay, show a good deal of the haw. The 
ears are set on low, and are long, thin and 
