Origins
Unruffled, lively, agile, courageous, very strong, resistant to bad weather, the Camargue horse boasts very ancient origins: it goes right back to the Stone Age, as shown by archaeological finds in Arles in France.
Horace and Caesar confirm in their works the existence of a breed of horse in the Camargue well before the the Roman occupation. Throughout history this horse has been appreciated by great figures like the Calvinist Jean Laporte and Napoleon, for the equipping of armies.