Cabriolet (carriage)

Cabriolet with groom on footboard behind the covered seats
Rear view of design for cabriolet, 1875

A cabriolet (alternatively cabriole[1]: 32 ) is a light horse-drawn vehicle, with two wheels and a single horse. The carriage has a folding hood that can cover its two occupants, one of whom is the driver. It has a large rigid apron, upward-curving shafts, and usually a rear platform between the C springs for a groom. The design was developed in France in the eighteenth century and quickly replaced the heavier hackney carriage as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London.[2]

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