The Last Teachings of Baucher

Translated from the French in 1935 by Dressage Master Einar Schmit-Jensen, this book was originally written by Faverot de Kerbrech - one of Baucher's best and last pupils.  The translation by a master and world renowned equestrian scholar, who was also a pupil of a pupil of Baucher's has meant the original meanings of Baucher's work and de Kerbrech's text have been kept intact.

As Kerbrech himself says: "The last equestrian ideas of Francois Baucher are still little known. This famous riding-master couldn't ride in public, since his terrible accident when he broke both his legs. He lived in retirement and after 1861 gave very few lessons. Of the few pupils who followed those lessons only two or three are still alive. On the other hand, Baucher, too old to recast his different works which were continuously modified because of his new discoveries, has not been able to publish a complete and methodical description of his last methods of schooling. He preferred usually to state some general principles, explained in a few words, saying that it was up to the riding-masters who had learnt his methods to teach how to apply them in thousands of individual cases. Therefore, there is a danger that the detailed lessons of F. Baucher which were most of the time not understood, ignored or parodied, should disappear without any trace".

It is imperative that these works - translated and fully understood by a Dressage Master who studied with Baucher's pupils - are offered to all scholars of classical dressage in their purest form so they may be further studied and the art kept alive.

This translation was completed in 1935 but has lain unpublished in Einar Schmit-Jensen's archives since that date.  His pupil Caroline Stephens has taken this manuscript and reproduced it for the benefit of all classical scholars.

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