piqueur

The _piqueur_ follows close up with the dogs, sets them on or calls them off, and recalls them if they go off on a false scent.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

We talked a few minutes to Hubert, the piqueur, who was in a very bad humor.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

The huntsman sprang into an archway and in an instant returned, mounted upon a strong black horse, followed by a piqueur also mounted.

The King in Yellow 1899

But on hearing from the _piqueur_ that the monarch of all he surveyed was waiting in the carriage, he flew to open the gate, disclosing his scanty night-attire.

In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

The _piqueur_, finding the gate locked through which we had to pass, knocked on the door of the lodge-keeper, who, awakened from his slumbers, appeared in a _déshabillé_ more than hasty, intending to administer a _savon_ (scolding) to such tardy comers.

In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

By noon every corner and vantage point of the landscape is seized upon, when, with a blare of trumpets and the rattle of cavalry, the President arrives in his turnout _a la Daumont_, two postilions in blue and gold, and a _piqueur_, preceded by a detachment of the showy _Gardes Republicains_ on horseback, and takes his place in the little pavilion where for so many years

Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884

The boar is afoot, and all over the forest, and in all neighbouring villages, there is a vague excitement and a vague hope; for who knows whither the chase may lead? and even to have seen a single piqueur, or spoken to a single sportsman, is to be a man of consequence for the night.

Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

In the grey dawn the game was turned and the branch broken by our best piqueur.

Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

However, as there are no bulls here, I will send the head _piqueur_ upon the track of a wild boar which was seen near the chateau last night; he will exactly suit you.

Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840

And here a scene would most undoubtedly have ensued, but happily the head _piqueur_ arrived, informing us that the boar was in a thick patch of underwood, about two miles from thence, in which he was supposed to be taking his mid-day

Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840