page_title: Joseph Aveline
section_title: Horse breeder
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Aveline / Career / Horse breeder
caption_attribution_description: asil Arabian mare SCHABAKA of straight Egyptian bloodlines
context_page_description: Joseph Aveline was a 20th-century French politician and agricultural expert from the Orne department of France, who served as mayor of Dorceau for a half century and, as parliamentary deputy, opposed full powers to Marshall Philippe Pétain in July 1940.
context_section_description: The Aveline family had already been breeding Percheron in the early 1800s:  
  We find the name of Aveline for the first time in 1823 at Mont Gaudray.  He had a brown-bay mare...  
  M. Cousin, commune of Peray, had a dapple-gray stallion, born 1827, slightly under 16 hands, which served 40 mares in 1832, 43 mares in 1833, and 42 in 1834. We find the names of Avelines and Hamelin among the owners of mares served by this horse...
    His relative, Charles Paul Aveline (1853-1917) received a short biographical entry in the 1917 book A History of the Percheron Horse:  of particular note was M. Charles Aveline' brown Percheron named "Dragon." In 1889, there is mention that Percheron "Gris-Blue 9477" was appartenant à M. Joseph Aveline ("owned by Mr. Joseph Aveline").  In 1917, a photo of his farm in Dorceau appears in A History of Percheron Horses.
  Joseph Aveline helped spearhead agriculture in Normandy. He led farmers in farming co-ops and trade unionism. He served as president of the regional bank for agricultural credit, president of the Orne Chamber of Agriculture, and vice-president of the Normandy Chamber of Agriculture.
  Due to technical prowess, he also became president of the Percheron Horse Racing Society of France; member of the Higher Council of Agriculture, the Advisory Committee on Livestock, the Higher Stud Council, the Higher Council on Agronomic Research; president of the Federation of Genealogical Books, and foreign trade advisor.
  Aveline won numerous breeding competitions. He also headed a large stud farm and became a horse specialist who, later in life, went on lecture tours, particularly in South America.  The Harness racing horse track of Vincennes has a race and prize in his name.
caption: Aveline bred Percheron horses, which comes from his home Orne department
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