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Salomon de La Broue

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Salomon de La Broue
Bornc. 1530
Diedc. 1610
NationalityFrench
OccupationRiding-master
Known for
  • Preceptes Principaux, 1593
  • Cavalerice françois, 1602
Title-page of the 1610 edition of the Cavalerice françois

Salomon de La Broue (c. 1530 – c. 1610) was a French écuyer [fr] or riding-master[1] and Gascon gentleman.[2]: 353  His treatise on riding, published as the Preceptes Principaux in 1593, was the first to have been written in French.[1][2]: 353  Like Antoine de Pluvinel, he was a pupil of Gianbattista Pignatelli.[3][2]: 353  De La Broue was écuyer to Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, the first Duke of Épernon, and écuyer ordinaire of the Grande Écurie du Roi [fr] in the reign of Henri IV.[3]

De La Broue, like Pluvinel, was one of the founders of the old French haute école. His methods centred on calmness in hand, freedom and lightness in order to obtain the best results from the horse; he rejected the use of force or constraint in training.[2]: 58–59 

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  1. ^ a b Catalogue général: Notice de personne: La Broue, Salomon de (1530?-1610?) (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Accessed March 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d Patrice Franchet d'Espèrey (2007). La main du maître: réflexions sur l'héritage équestre (in French). Paris: Odile Jacob. ISBN 9782738120335.
  3. ^ a b Gabriel René Mennessier de La Lance (1917). Essai de Bibliographie Hippique, volume 2 (in French). Paris: L. Dorbon. [page needed]