Jean PELATAN (translated by John P. HARRIS)
• THE PERCHERON HORSE, PAST AND PRESENT

CONTENTS

– Préface
– Introductory Note

– The Percheron Horse, past and present
– Distant Origins, a subject of dissension and debate
– When Kings Took Notice of Percherons, 1665-1789
– Renewal and Boom, 1806-1850
– The Organisation of Breeding Techniques
– The Percheron Goes Round the World, 1860-1910
– “True Always to Itself”, 1920-1945
–  The Decline and the Westward Shift, 1946-1975
– What of the Future ?
– “From Early Morn to Dewy Eve”

– Appendix
– Notes
– Sources