Jean Froissard

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Jean Froissard is a French writer and a leading authority on the subject of horsemanship. He has written a number of reference works on the subject, some of them co-written with his wife Lily Powell who is also an award-winning novelist in her own right. Froissard has been conferred the highest degree of Ecuyer Professeur by the French Equestrian Federation. [1] He lives with his wife in Paris, France.

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