Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1911 — Famous French Hunting Dogs. [ARTICLE]

Famous French Hunting Dogs.

Like their masters the aristocratic (eerhounda of France were much dispersed in the days of the guillotine; »ut unlike them they made friends among the common people. So animals with pedigrees going back to Louis XI took up contented lives In homes of peasants. Thus they passed the period of the emigration, but not without certain damage to their heredity. Some pure old races were preserved only through a small pack or pair of dogs. Such Is the race of S&intonge. In 1789 It was on the point of disappearing. If it exists still it Is thanks to a physician of Saintea, Doctor Clemot, to whom the Marquis de la Porte-aux-Loups entrusted three dogs. On the return of the 1 marquis from the emigration Doctor Clemot gave back the Increased family, and these are the ancestors of all the pure Saintonge hounds of today.