GENERAL ASPECTS: A medium tall pigeon about 38 cm long. The body is robust and well proportioned. It weighs about 550 to 600 grams. Despite its name which means peak crest in French, the head is not peak crested but rather has a shell crest.
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HEAD: Rather large and long. Seen from above, it must form an acute triangle with it point at the beak and its base is the beginning of the crest. The frontal is fairly high and round.
BEAK: Rather long, between 22 and 25 mm, black, rather slender in its makeup (somewhat like a field pigeon). The upper mandible is very slightly hooked at the tip. The wattles are small, white, and powdery.
CREST: The crest is a shell crest. It must be very well formed, well rounded and end in rosettes on each side of the head. The centers of the rosettes are located on a prolongation of the line of the nose and eye. The top of the crest must only be slightly higher than the head.
EYES: Lively (bright); the iris varies between rod-orange and rod-brown, the pupil is black. Cock's eye (tri-colored) rod on the outside and yellow/orange at the center is tolerated but forms the extreme limit to which eye color may go. Washed out, yellowish, or other eye color must be considered a grave fault. Red pigment must always be present.
EYE CERE: Fine and gray-blue in color.
NECK: Rather powerful at the base. It rests on large shoulders. Males have a tendency to have a slight globe but not the females. The feathers of the nape of the neck coming from the shell form about a 1 cm roll directed toward the base of the neck then becomes sleek and regular.
CHEST: Well developed, broad at least 8 cm.
BACK: Straight. Rather large.
WINGS: Long, meet without crossing flights on the tail. The shield is well developed without being held too tightly to the body and its surface is convex.
TAIL: Tightly closed, carried horizontally, about 2 cm past the flights.
LEGS: Strong legs of medium length. Well set in the body to assure good stance. Legs rod and naked (of feather) as are the toes. Toenails the color of the beak.
PLUMAGE: The plumage of the Crested Soultz is to be a very delicate pastel blue and one which tends to call to mind the porcelains of Copenhagen. The neck is a darker light blue than the body and it has a greenish sheen. Flight and tail feathers must be dark gray. The rump alone is white and is coverod by the wings.
VARIETIES: Four varieties exist:
FAULTS: