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During the Revolution
or before, many of the French nobility fled France, often taking their
hounds with them. A good number of this breed found its way to America.
For example, a family named Rousseau was granted large tracts of land
in the Louisiana Territory by King Louis XIV, and kept many hunting hounds
there. Reportedly, just before the American Civil War, there were 250
Porcelaine hounds on the Rousseau plantations in the South. A painting
owned by the family, and exhibited in Paris in 1906, shows 31 Porcelaines
killing a panther in the Louisiana canebreak. After the Civil War, when
the southern plantations were broken up, the descendants of the Rousseau
family moved west into Texas. The pack of hounds was scattered as gifts
to area ranchers. Although purebred Porcelaine breeding did not survive
that move, the blood of these French hounds figured prominently in the
creation of many of our native American hound breeds, especially in the
southwest.
Bred to hunt
hare and roe deer, the breed is energetic, impetuous, and fierce in the
hunt, but serene when at home. He is a classic French hound in type with
very long ears. The name Porcelaine came from his shining white coat which
gives him the look of a porcelain statuette.
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