Doucet, Corinne <br/><br/>
Equestrian Academies and the Education of the Nobility (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century) 

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<br/><br/> Equestrian academies blossomed all over France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution. They were considered as a place par excellence for the education of a courtier. For this reason, the central authorities gradually took them under their wing but without giving them any help. They let the cities bear the financial costs. The equerries that managed them, famous or unknown, were responsible for the nobility’s education. For the pupils, the academies were the perfect place to build important relations and the source of an art symbolic of their position in the Ancien Regime society.