Editing Basset Hound (section)

==History==
===St Hubert's Hound===
{{See also|Bloodhound}}

The Basset type originated in France, and is descended from the 6th-century hounds belonging to [[St Hubert]] of Belgium, which through breeding at the Benedictine Abbey of [[Saint-Hubert, Belgium|St. Hubert]] eventually became what is known as the [[Bloodhound#Chien de Saint-Hubert|St Hubert's Hound]] around 1000&nbsp;AD. St Hubert's original hounds are descended from the [[Laconia]]n ([[Sparta]]n) Hound,<ref name="CampbellThornton">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_TEiJ7FtJ0sC |title=Bloodhounds: Everything about Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, Behavior, and Training| first1=Kim |last1=Campbell Thornton| first2= Michele |last2= Earle-Bridges |publisher=Barron's Educational Series|year= 1998 |isbn=0-7641-0342-3 |access-date= January 15, 2016}}</ref> one of four groups of dogs discerned from Greek representations and descriptions. These scent hounds were described as large, slow, "short-legged and deep mouthed" dogs with a small head, straight nose, upright ears and long neck, and either tan with white markings or black with tan markings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/canes/canes.html |title=Dogs in Rome and Greece |publisher=Penelope.uchicago.edu |access-date=8 December 2014}}</ref> Laconian Hounds were reputed to not give up the scent until they found their prey. They eventually found their way to Constantinople, and from there to Europe.<ref name="CampbellThornton"/>

===France===
[[File:ModeltheBasset.jpg|thumb|left|1879 [[woodcut]] of Everett Millais' first Basset-type hound named Model, who was imported from France in 1874]]

The first mention of a "Basset" dog appeared in La Venerie, an illustrated hunting text written by Jacques du Fouilloux in 1585.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette, Volume 106|date=1989 |work=American Kennel Club}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Which pet?|last=Peter|first=Isaac|date=1982 |publisher=Jill Norman & Hobhouse Ltd. |isbn=0-906908-56-6 |location=London|oclc=10965647}}</ref>  The name "Basset" has its origins in the Latin word for low, ''bassus'', and the French diminutive -''et''.  The dogs in Fouilloux's text were used to hunt foxes and badgers. It is believed that the Basset type originated as a [[#Health|mutation]] in the litters of [[Normans|Norman]] Staghounds, a descendant of the St Hubert's Hound. These precursors were most likely bred back to the St. Hubert's Hound, among other derivative French hounds. Until after the [[French Revolution]] around the year 1789, [[hunting]] from [[Horseriding|horseback]] was the preserve of kings, large aristocratic families and of the country squires, and for this reason short-legged dogs were highly valued for hunting on foot.

Basset-type hounds became popular during the reign of Emperor [[Napoleon III]] (r. 1852–1870). In 1853, [[Emmanuel Fremiet]], "the leading sculptor of animals in his day" exhibited bronze sculptures of Emperor Napoleon III's Basset Hounds at the Paris Salon.<ref>Fusco, Peter and H. W. Janson, eds., ''The Romantics to Rodin'', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, p. 272.</ref> Ten years later in 1863 at the first exhibition of dogs held in Paris, Basset Hounds attained international attention.<ref>{{cite book |title=The New Book of the Dog |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924101969198 |last=Leighton |first=Robert |year=1907 |publisher= Cassell and Company, Ltd. |oclc=608157750 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

The controlled breeding of the short haired Basset began in France in 1870. From the existing Bassets, Count Le Couteulx of Canteleu fixed a utilitarian type with straight front legs known as the Chien d'Artois, whereas Mr. Louis Lane developed a more spectacular type, with crooked front legs, known as the Basset Normand. These were bred together to create the original [[Basset Artésien Normand]].<ref>[http://www.fci.be/uploaded_files/034gb2001_en.doc Breed standard, Basset Artésien Normand (DOC file)] at FCI.be; {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101092318/http://www.fci.be/uploaded_files/034gb2001_en.doc |date=November 1, 2013 }}</ref>

===England===
[[File:Basset hound history.jpg|thumb|An early 20th century Basset-type hound]]
French Basset Hounds were being imported into England at least as early as the 1870s. While some of these dogs were certainly Basset Artésien Normands, by the 1880s [[linebreeding]] had thrown back to a different heavier type. Everett Millais, who is considered to be the father of the modern Basset Hound, bred one such dog, Nicholas, to a [[Bloodhound]] bitch named Inoculation through [[artificial insemination]] in order to create a heavier Basset in England in the 1890s. The litter was delivered by [[caesarean section]], and the surviving pups were refined with French and English Bassets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.basset.net/index.php?page=the-early-history-of-the-basset-hound-in-england-1874-1921 |title=The Early History of the Basset Hound in England, 1874-1921| website= Basset.net|access-date=8 December 2014}}</ref> The first breed standard for what is now known as the Basset Hound was made in Great Britain at the end of 19th century.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.bohemia-horrido.com/standardcomment.html|title=Standard of the Breed Bassethound with Comments by Iva Černohubová |website=Bohemia-horrido.com|access-date=8 December 2014}}</ref> This standard was updated in 2010.<ref>[http://www.fci.be/uploaded_files/163g06-en.doc Breed standard, Basset Hound 2010 (DOC file)] at FCI.be; {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101091446/http://www.fci.be/uploaded_files/163g06-en.doc |date=November 1, 2013}}</ref>