Antoine Cartier d'Aure

Viscount Antoine Henri Philippe Léon Cartier d'Aure (2 June 1799 – 6 April 1863) was a French riding-master, and author of important treatises on dressage.

He was écuyer en chef of the Cadre Noir of Saumur, and later to the Emperor of France, Napoléon III.

[1] Cartier d'Aure was born on 2 June 1799 (15 Prairial VII according to the Republican calendar then in use) in Toulouse, in the Haute-Garonne in south-west France, the posthumous son of Antoine Cartier d'Aure of Pointis-de-Rivière and Rose-Claire Barthélémie de Foucaud, who was from the Languedoc.

[2]: 276  He was sent to the École de Versailles to learn to ride, and trained under Pierre-Marie d'Abzac; he was made an écuyer in 1821.

[3]: 140 In 1858 he was appointed écuyer en chef and inspector of the imperial stables to the Emperor of France, Napoléon III.

Man on a large black horse jumping a fence and ditch in a rural setting
Equestrian portrait by Philippe Ledieu, circa 1834, in the Château-Musée de Saumur