Le point sur l’inventaire en cours des manèges français du XVIe au XXe siècle

Abstract

During the Renaissance, the use of the « manège » (indoor riding hall) spreads itself. Quickly, this casket which shelters the exercising nobility equips military schools, cavalry barracks, and becomes the essential tool we know in all horse schools. If stables have already been the topic of numerous researches, the “manèges” have never really been studied. Some of these buildings still exist. These places of the equestrian culture memory are rarely registered as protected patrimony. Listing them is the way to try to shed their expansion on the territory, the range of their architecture, and the facilities which welcome them (barracks, castles, farms, stud farms, abbeys…), their condition (some do not exist anymore except on the records papers) etc. This is the goal of this research done under the aegis of the École nationale d’équitation (National riding school of Saumur) and the Direction générale des patrimoines (The National heritages direction).

Keywords

• académie
• Ancien Régime
• architecture
• caserne
• cavalerie
• charpente