Barouche
A barouche is a car with animal haulage arrival of Central Europe. This term tends today to indicate any car drawn by one or more horses. The majority of the vehicles which walk the tourists in the cities are not really barouches with the direction strict.
The barouche appeared at the XVIIIe century and underwent several successive evolutions. In its final form, at the XIXe century, the barouche is an elegant car, discovered, provided with a folding hood, with four wheels, and four places in opposite. Its case, of form “boat”, is assembled on springs of the type “tweezers”. The seat of the coachman is out of wood or iron. It is a car which was used primarily for the walk, during the beautiful season. At the XIXe century, in particular in Paris, the fashion wanted that the barouche is harnessed in Aumont (four or six horses, of which those of left were assembled each one by a Postillon, and thus not of notching).
The barouche with English, discovered and often upholstered satin, was the prerogative of the fortunate walkers. The English barouche with eight springs was called barouche .
The barouche was supplanted by a modernized form of the Landau, put on wheel in the city now German of Pram.
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Sources
Joseph Jobé, At the time of the coachmen , Lausanne, Published-Lazarus, 1976. ISBN 2-88001-019-5