This passage of witness will be early 2008

They are only two, in the history of France, in exercising this function. The Countess of Brionne, became Grand-Ecuyer in 1761 King on the death of her husband. And Emmanuelle Bour, named four years Director General of the public establishment of the national stud farm. That is, if the Chief Engineer of rural engineering, water and forests in forty-nine years is one of the few women in sight in a medium still very male. All the more in view that Edouard de Rothschild, President of the society of France Gallop races, has recently chosen to succeed very iconic Louis Romanet to branch. This passage of witness will be early 2008. In the meantime, in the first quarter of 2007, Emmanuelle Bour will leave the stud farm, thus putting an end to twenty-five years of good and loyal service in the House.

It is indeed in 1982, at the end of his studies, as Deputy Director of the haras de Saint-Lô. Early that should nothing random: the horse racing world, Emmanuelle Bour always attended it, or almost. Between a father surgeon that transmitted virus riding his oldest passion with classical dance and grandparents who owned a house next to the stud farm of pine, the "Versailles of the horse", the daughter of Châtellerault could hardly do otherwise than to have a thoroughbred full head. Later, she gives the means to realize his dream of child in being admitted in preparatory classes to Ginette she will meet her future husband, Daniel and then at the Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon.

Daniel Bour having him as a busy professional life he now chairs the company General of health , the patron saint of the national Haras admits not having a family life of the most classic. "Public service of the horse" has earned, she and her three daughters, to a somewhat itinerant existence. After Saint-Lô, it will be, in 1987, Compiègne, always as Assistant Director, then Rambouillet, this time as Director of the national stud farm of Bréviaires, and again Compiègne. Between these different field experiments, Emmanuelle Bour will have exercised various functions more "corporate", such as Chief of the Office of horseback riding or responsible for the purchase of standards it is including the honour of having the hand, with 5.5 million francs on "Hello Jo", a Trotter outstanding.

But it is obviously as CEO that Emmanuelle Bour will have particularly marked the national stud farm. Since their transformation in 1999, in public administrative they were previously that State a simple service, the stud farm had to form their own nervous system (creation of a financial officer, of an HRD, etc.), but also and above all, to redefine their missions. Emmanuelle Bour will have greatly contributed to this work of modernisation and move from a culture of means to a culture of results. Substantive work that the Minister of Agriculture, Dominique Bussereau, failed to greet him questioning last spring the Legion of honour. The cavalière history can also... say Knight.