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Baron de Vaux, in his book Ecuyers et Ecuyères, tells us that Emilie Loisset, who was a brilliant high school rider, was killed by a rearer coming over with her. He says: "Elle souffrait beaucoup, car la fourche de la selle lui avait perforé les intestins.
Cloud, with the setting sun shining through the fine old trees, to hear of all the fetes that used to take place there, and one could quite well fancy the beautiful Empress appearing at the end of one of the long avenues, followed by a brilliant suite of ladies and ecuyers, and the echoes of the cor de chasse in the distance.
...Que s'est-il donc passé? Quel est cet équipage? J'arrive, et je vous trouve en veste, comme un page, Dehors, bras nus, nu-tête, et si petit garçon Que vous avez en main l'auge et le caveçon, Et faisant ce qu'il sied aux écuyers de faire, Cheick, dit le Cid, je suis maintenant chez mon père. Those who never saw Guynemer at his father's at Compiègne cannot know him well.
"Par Saint Hubert mon patron C'est quelque due de haut renom * Sonnez: écuyers et piqueux Un Murat vien en ces lieux." Chamblay fortunately being neither populous nor near a great town there is no throng of curious spectators hovering about to get in the way and scare the game and the hounds and their followers out of their wits.
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