Barouche etymological technicality; over a few thousand years, words change. The barouche was based on an earlier style of carriage, the "calash" or "calèche": this was a light carriage with small wheels, inside seats for four passengers, a separate driver's seat and a folding top. A folding calash top was a feature of two other types: the chaise, a two-wheeled carriage for one or two persons, a body hung on leather straps or thorough-braces, usually drawn by one horse; and a victoria, a low four-wheeled pleasure carriage for two with a raised seat in front for the driver. A victoria is
Phaeton (carriage) outskirts of Nice, in the south of France. There is a print of the monarch enjoying her morning excursions on page 490 of the "Illustrated London News" of 10 April 1897. In addition, there is a photograph in the Royal Collection, dated 1898. There are also other photographs, using a black donkey, taken at Windsor Castle. Bolshevik revolutionaries used a phaeton to escape after carrying out the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery. Valerie, Lady Meux would startle London Society by driving herself in a high phaeton drawn by zebras. In the 1995 film "Sense and Sensibility", the character Mr. Willoughby drives