L'ecuyer Mirobolant, Paperback Book, By: GARCIN JEROME

Book Description Jerome Garcin is notably the author, for Editions Gallimard, of The fall of the horse, Bartabas, novel and Rider alone. From the Back Cover "In horsemanship as in the army, Etienne knew how futile it would have been to want to smash the rebels, to subdue the cantankerous, and that it was impossible to achieve lightness by force, shine by anger. the most imperious stallions, he had not fought them. On the contrary, he had never ceased to want to understand them in order to make them better allies. Whatever the horse, he wanted to do without He dreamed of reigning without weight or support, by the sole breath of the boot, the caress of the leather and the depth of the plate. Going up was no longer a physical activity, it was a pure thought., an act of faith.