Mr Danhieux bred Miss to the black Duc de Groenendael, son of Picard d'Uccle and Petite, the foundation couple for the Groenendael variety of the Belgian Shepherd Dogs, and in 1897 two puppies were born who were to play a significant role in both Groenendael and Tervueren history. One offspring, Diane, a long haired black, remained with Mr Danhieux, and her descendants, resulting from litters with Picard d'Uccle and with his son, Pitt, are to be found in modern Groenendael and Tervueren genealogies. The other offspring, a charcoaled fawn long hair named Milsart, was sold to Mr F Cloetens of Tervueren, and played a predominant role in the early production of this variety.
Milsart became the leading sire of the early 1900s. He was described as a very elegant male with good black masking and deep fawn color, well charcoaled, with perfect character and a great degree of intelligence. His major imperfection was a crooked tail carried to the side.
Bred to his dam Miss, Milsart produced Dick de la Mare, ("de la Mare" was the kennel name of Charles Danhieux), another outstanding sire with black masking and charcoaled fawn coat. With various bitches, Milsart sired a great number of offspring, many still found in today's extended genealogies, including Black and Miss, owned by Mr E Debecker; Casta LOSH 8234; Miss, owned by Mr Decoster; and Rosi RSH 456. Hist of Terv p2-3
Mar 27, 1898 Chasse et Peche show critique by Prof Adolphe Reul:
Milsart, Terv, who had a hooked tail, but was charcoaled fawn and "had the air of Groenendael parents".
Prof. Reul didn't care for any of the "other than black' long hairs, concluding that the class "Was as defective as it was numerous".
A July 24, 1989 show critique of Milsart has him as "a perfect topline, but his tail is carried sideways". (Meanwhile his black littermate, Diane, was being rated down for a domed head and an indentation on her nose.) (translated)
It was not until 1907 that agreement was reached between the Berger Belge Club, who had replaced the CCBB, and the Societe Royale Saint-Hubert that fawn rough and long hairs would receive LOSH registrations. Milord LOSH 8233, a double grandson of Milsart, received the first. In that same year, 10 year old Milsart became the first Tervueren to earn a SRSH championship certificate (CAC). Hist of Terv p4
Milsart is credited with founding the 'old Terv line'. In Tervuren history only four dogs can be found which perpetuate this 'old Terv line'. Thy are the half-brothers and sisters, Unica and Unique and Urvinioul and Urvinior. Through these four, almost every Tervuren can trace its ancestry back to Milsart. BBA pxiii
The most famous Tervuren of his time. The accounts at that time, describe him as an already perfectly sucessful prototype of the variety. Born a fawn, from a breeding between a black and a fawn, in spite of the dominant character of the color black, he was strongly homozygous, as is the characteristic of the fawn color, and he was able to transmit the fawn gene, making him the forefather of the charcoaled fawn branch of the long hair Berger Belge.
BBA p33 & p45-46
The female charcoaled fawn Lea (Lea des Dahlias) of Mr. De Wolf has been bred to Milsart of Mr. Cloetens. (No other details given.)
(December 27, 1908 Chasse et Peche announcement)
sire Groenendael Duc de Groenendael unregistered
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Book
(Berger Belge Anthology and Cent ans d Histoire du Chien de Berger Belge pg 56)
Stud Book
(1910 LOSH p159 grand sire of Milord LOSH 8233)
Book
(History of the Tervueren by Mara lee Jiles, Dec 2002, p2-3)
Book
(1896-1900 Chasse et Peche #3)
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