the more certain when the horse no longer dares to go up to his bridle when moving forward, on account of the preponderance which the hand has on the legs, whenever the animal wants to advance.

Fig. 12. — Baucher's flexion when mounted.

Finally, the work of making the horse go forward constitutes the great difference between my system of equitation and that of Baucher.

My first lesson has been to make the animal go forward.

In his Dictionnaire raisonnée d'équitation (1833), page 112,