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Dressage $35.99 Show off the horse's abilities at the Dressage competition. Includes four figures, two horses, hurdles, fences, and a seating area for spectators. Recommended for ages four and up. Warning. Choking Hazard. Small parts. Ages 4 yrs. +.

The Athletic Development of the Dressage Horse $22.36 Shows how to attain optimum performance in a dressage horse with exercises designed to improve suspension, collection, and changes of tempo and gait

Selecting the Dressage Horse $22.36 A complete description of the ideal dressage horse, covering all aspects of sports horse conformation, movement, and temperament from the viewpoints of both the rider and the breeder.

Dressage for the Not-So-Perfect Horse $21.74 Tens of thousands of riders pursue the sport of dressage in North America, and the majority do so on a budget and with the horse they already have--or quite simply, the one they can afford...

The Elements of Dressage $18.15 Drawing on centuries of European practice, The Elements of Dressage will help any reader perfect the union between horse and rider...

101 Dressage Exercises for Horse and Rider $23.72 Dressage, the equestrian practice in which a horse makes highly precise movements in response to barely perceptible signals from the rider, has taken hold of Americas equestrians...

Feeling Dressage $9.99 While many dressage books detail the mechanics of riding and training, this book offers much more to horse people of all disciplines by presenting classical dressage as an important foundation for any horse. The author is a German dressage champion with 20 years teaching experience. In the quest to master the techniques of classical dressage, riders can forget an equally important component of successful riding - achieving the feel. Feeling Dressage describes in a systematic way how to achieve the right feeling. Detailed yet easy to understand descriptions help the rider comprehend and mentally visualise the goal and the feeling certain movements should have when performed correctly. Feeling Dressage is an important training tool, not only for the dressage enthusiast but for all riders who understand the importance of the relationship between rider and horse. The author discusses basic requirements of horse and rider, early training, advanced movements and dressage competition requirements.

Dressage Horse Tile Mold $32.95 Dressage Horse Tile Mold is designed to make spectacular tiles and plaques. Simply fill the mold with fusible glass, frit, enamels or metal inclusions to make your own unique designs. You can also use it like a texture mold by firing sheet glass on it to imprint texture. Then, once fired you can slump it, texture side up, to create bowls and plates with amazing detail. Must kiln wash before use. Measures 5-3/4 x 7-3/4 x 1-1/4 deep. Project by artist Kayleigh McGrath.

Dressage Today $19.95 Dressage Today magazine is dedicated to the exciting and fast-growing sport of equestrian dressage. Each issue covers both the practical and theoretical for riders of all ages and ability and features in-depth articles that teach new skills in riding and horse care, cover competition results from around the world, and include local and regional updates from dressage clubs. Get a magazine subscription to Dressage Today and join in the fun!

Deciphering Dressage $16.99 The definitive guide to dressage--the art, science, and secrets of graceful horsemanship for riders who want to exude natural elegance in the saddle Dressage has been described as "a beautiful ballet on horseback." It embodies an innate grace, a seemingly effortless flow, and an easy harmony between horse and rider. Dressage elevates riding from a sport to an art form. One of the fastest growing equestrian sports in America, it appeals to competitive riders as well as those who simply want to improve their mounts and their skills. Because the principles of dressage encompass the art and science of horsemanship and every aspect of the horse-rider relationship, dressage training enhances other equestrian disciplines. The exercises and patterns help improve the horse's overall balance and athleticism and make the mount more responsive. Ideal for beginning enthusiasts or people who simply want to appreciate the elegance and finesse of classical riding, Deciphering Dressage unlocks the secrets of classical, precision riding. It covers: * Choosing and caring for a suitable dressage horse * Buying tack and riding apparel * Sitting the horse correctly and using aids or subtle signals to cue the horse * Preparing for competitions * Riding a dressage test * Competition and scoring * Recognized shows, schooling shows, ride-a-tests, and eventing Complete with over fifty photographs and drawings, as well as step-by-step explanations of exercises and maneuvers, this guide helps riders master the basics of this exceptionally demanding and rewarding discipline.

Death Rides A Paint Horse $15.95 Death Rides A Paint Horse

The American Paint Horse $26.5 The American Paint Horse

Da Vinci Gold Heart Dressage Browband $24.95 DaVinci Gold Heart Dressage Browband Black Horse

Dressage with Kyra $36.95 No matter the level of the competition or the skill of the horse, with this dressage training system any rider with basic riding skills can learn the methods that have made Olympian Kyra Kyrklund ...

101 Dressage Exercises For Horse & Rider $22.36 Dressage, the equestrian practice in which a horse makes highly precise movements in response to barely perceptible signals from the rider, has taken hold of America’s equestrians. Participation rates have risen by 200 percent over the past twen

Dressage 2012 Wall Calendar $14.99 Dating back more than two thousand years, the object of dressage is the harmonious development of the physical ability of the horse. Horsemanship, if you will. Aesthetically beautiful to the observer, the horse submits happily and proudly to the will of the rider. There are competitions of “dressage

First Steps in Dressage $10.95 Dressage involves drawing out the natural capability of the horse and shaping it into something beautiful and expressive...

Light and Easy Dressage $35.6 Penny Hillsdon''s goal is for dressage training to bring pleasure and happy partnership to both horse and rider...

Dressage as Art in Competition $32.95 Dressage as Art in Competition provides a detailed analysis of a training program designed-and proven-to take a horse to the highest level...

Gift Corral Figurine Paint Horse $19.95 Figurine Paint Horse

Voyageur Contract

In 1749 New France, Jean Francois MAURICE DitLAFANTAISIE signed a contract. Before I get to this interesting document, let me introduce you to the man, the time, and the place.

 

The sobriquet or nom-de-guerre "La Fantaisie" attached to the family name MAURICE is unique though not exclusive to that family, and was passed down for many generations. My fascination with the name led to some research.

 

The name suggests an origin of horse training and dressage. In dressage, a horse that, momentarily, would not obey his master, as though making a break for freedom, was said to be having "a fantasy".

 

Jean Francois, born in 1712, and his wife, Madelaine LEDUC, whom he married in 1737, have thousands of descendants alive today The French of New France were embarrassingly, prodigiously, rapturously fertile.

 

In 1749, the king of France was Louis XV. He's the one who said « Apres moi, le déluge » "After me the deluge". He would take his pleasure as he found it and to hell with consequences for the future.

 

France was still powerful but after the war of the succession of Austria, crushed by debt, it had lost a lot of prestige along with some colonies.

 

Skirmishes and outright battles were a common feature of life in Montreal. When the colonists weren't fighting the natives, they were fighting the English.

 

  This image is in the public domain - copyright has expired.

 

Francois BIGOT (1703-1778) was "Intendant", the head honcho in Montreal appointed by the king. He was notorious for throwing over-the-top banquets and balls that scandalized the clergy in young Canada. He was finally recalled to France in 1760, ostensibly for embezzlement, in fact perhaps for one banquet too many.
Sieur Francois could hardly have missed all this; in fact, he may have danced at a scandalous ball or two with the lovely Madeleine LeDuc.

 

Though his father's occupation is listed as master shoemaker after his retirement from the army, Jean Francois moved in a nice social circle. The contract below shows him as financier for a business venture and his relations included Jacques Joseph CHEVAL, husband to his wife's sister. Jacques Joseph was in a position of considerable authority and wealth; harbor master in Montreal in 1740 and then bailiff of the High Council in 1750 with an official residence in Montreal.

 

A few years before the signing of our Voyageur contract below, the British established Halifax, Nova Scotia as a counterbalance to the French settlement and Fort at Louisbourg.

 

A few years after that signing, in 1758, Louisbourg fell to the British. Quebec and Montreal went down in 1759 and 1760. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 established that New France had become part of British America.

 

Of course, one reason for this loss was that the French preferred the Caribbean possessions to Canada, maybe egged on by Voltaire who wrote that the country was nothing but "Quelques arpents de neige" ...a few acres of snow... he was a little mistaken.

 

A description of Canada of that time was given by Peter D. Kala, a Swedish (Norwegian) gentleman. He wrote that he saw no potatoes in any St. Lawrence Valley garden, neither white nor sweet. The Canadians didn't like them and preferred wheat, peas and Indian corn.

 

He said they also produced turnips, cabbage, lettuce, pumpkins, chicory, cucumbers, carrots, beets, radishes, onions, watermelons, gooseberries, apples, and red currents.

 

He thought the common Canadian more civilized and clever than in any other place he had visited. He was amazed at the good breeding and courteous manner in word and deed in New France. He wrote that there was scarcely a Canadian who was not a clever marksmen and who did not own a rifle.

 

Most of us don't carry rifles anymore but we're still polite.

 

He wrote: "Whereas many nations imitate the French customs, I notice that, here, it is the French who, in various respects, imitate the customs of the Indians with whom they are in daily contact. They smoke, in Indian pipes, tobacco prepared in the Native way; they wear shoes in Indian fashion, and garters and sashes like the Indians."

 

And just so could be described the voyageurs who adopted native dress, customs and knowledge; those legendary men who broke the wilderness of America with canoes and paddles and sweat and blood... which brings us to our contract, a document that has survived the centuries and paints a picture, in living color, of a voyageur adventure...an audacious, cocky plan...an everyday occurrence of New France.

 

 © Centre canadien d'architecture et Centre for Landscape Research (University of Toronto), 1996

 The above is a rendering of Montreal in 1725. Notre Dame Street, where Jean Francois and Madeleine had their residence, is the one leading up to the church at the centre of the image.

 

In translating this voyageur contract from the French of the period, I have kept all capitalizations, punctuations and sentence structure as they are in the original as far as possible and bizarre as they seem:

 

June 6, 1749 Pledge
From andre mercille to
Sieur francois Maurice
La fantaisie
Notary: Francois Simonnet
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Paleographie: Marie-Josee Milord

INFORMATISATION : Lucienne Dalcourt

Francois Simonnet june 6 1749

1.Before The Royal Notaries
2.Of the city And Royal Jurisdiction of Montreal being resident undersigned
3.here Present andre mercill garcon
4.voyageur residing in Longueuil
5.And at present In this city
6.The which has Recognized And Confessed having Pledged by Those present
7.pledges to Sieur Francois Maurice La
8.fantaisie negotiator [broker/businessman] of this city
9.residing in his house six notre Dame street
10.herewith present and accepting
11.For his first requisition leaving from this city in a
12.Canoe Loaded with Merchandise helping to take it And Guide
13.up to the post of Missilima Kinac
14.All the way to that place and come back This present year
16.with His usual Convoys taking responsibility during all (the) Route.
16. -------------------of Canoes Merchandise furs Supplies
17.And utensils Seeking profit of same (meaning) Avoid damage
18.And Warn if such comes to his knowledge obey In all commands received
19.from herein And honestly And Finally do all That can And should do
20.a good and Loyal Contracted Voyageur without having the option of quitting
21. this service under Pain of penalty And of Loss
22. of wages This Contract thus made for And Paying
23. the Sum of One Hundred Eighty.

Francois Simonnet 6 juin 1749-49

1.Livres in silver--------(crossed out)-----------------
2.having currency in This country

 

 Painting, Frances A Hopkins, "Canoe shooting the Rapids," /National Archives of Canada/C-002774

 

3.That The said sieur Maurice La fantaisie Promises And Contracts to Broker and
4.Pay to said Employee for his wages And salary as soon as arrives
5.Said Employee In This City on Pain of renouncing all gain
6.And rights For thus have Convened Lawfully All Here present Etc
7.Promising Etc. Obliged Etc. Renouce Etc. so be it And more
8.in said Montreal Office of francois Simonnet Lun

9.Of said Notaries undersigned
10.Year One Thousand seven Hundred forty nine The Sixteenth Day of
11.June after Noon And have signed
12.with the exception of said Employee
13.herein named Who has declared he
14.Cannot Write Nor
15.sign This Court Document
16.made according to Order Ten
17.Words Crossed out are nul

francois Morise

aDhemar Fr. Simonnet
Notaire Royal

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