The difference between Henry de Bussigny's system of training the horse and the systems of FrançoisBaucher and James Fillis is that the former has carried his study farther the science as distinguished from the art. In addition, while Baucher and Fillis trained their horses for the sake of executing the movements of the high school, Bussigny employed the airs of the high school, not as an end in themselves, but as a means for developing the physical and mental qualities of the horse itself. By way of his system of gymnastics, he seeked to improve and develop a horse of any origin or conformation.The purposes of this manual are to explain the mechanical reason for every effect which the rider exerts on the horse, and to set forth the practical successive steps by which an ordinary horse is to be trained and developed. Underlying principles and theories are thoroughly explained with the greatest possible clearness. The methods are set forth and should prove perfectly easy both to understand and to apply. Henri Lucien de Bussignycame to the United States in 1872.was both famous and socially important.

He taught at riding schools in New York City and Boston until about 1922. He was a former French cavalry officer who had trained at theÉcole Spéciale Militaire deSaint-Cyr, the foremost nineteenth-century French military academy. Napoleon Bonaparte founded the academy in Fontainebleau in 1802 and it is often referred to simply as Saint-Cyr. De Bussigny also attended the military Cavalry School at Saumur with its elaborate exhibitions of dressage.Henry de Bussigny was a first-rate horseman of the French classical style.