Thursday, July 5, 2012

Brittany History in the United States

Last year my brief introduction to the topic after review of some information in the public domain.
Around this time in 2011, I contacted the French Brittany Club in France to inquire about details of the introduction of the Brittany into the USA:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qUk66WVytY4s3Ad8vXXYyQtL-1Bfskr1QDiLkyYUV6Q/edit

100 Year Anniversary - Brittany dog show video fom Rennes, France (1946?) taken by New Yorker Alan Stuyvesant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACmdRqA0u4&feature=g-user-u

(Posted on YouTube by BretonFan)

Both Alan Stuvesant and separately Louis Thebaud of New Jersey were key for the introduction of the Brittany into the United States and the American Kennel Club in the 1930's.

Prior to this in the 1919-1920 timeframe, Thebaud was principally responsible for introducing the Wire-Haired Pointing Griffon into the United States and developing an American breed standard: 

http://archive.org/stream/dogdommonthly00unkngoog#page/n123/mode/2up

He owned Pointing Griffon champion in 1920:  Marquis De Merlimont, AKC Registration;





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