Carousel (military)
See also: Carousel
A carousel (ka-rou-zèl) is a short equestrian spectacle during which the riders carry out figures and in music.
Among the known carousels appear those produced by the Republican guard like the carousel of the lances with thirty-two riders and a brass band.
In the beginning, the carousel is a military play which is richly composed of a succession of exercises with horse carried out by Quadrille S of lords vêtus, and intermingled with allegorical representations drawn from the fable or the history.
The carousels, whose origin does not go up in France beyond Henri IV, were imported of Italy and replaced the tournaments. The first carousel in France took place in 1605 in the Hôtel of Burgundy. Louis XIII and Louis XIV gave the very brilliant ones. One noticed in particular those given in 1662 to Paris, in front of the Tuileries, on the place called since Place of the Carousel, and in 1664 with Versailles, both in the honor of Miss of Vallière. These entertainments ceased being of mode at the 18th century.
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