Le postillon de Lonjumeau
Le postillon de Lonjumeau is an opéra-comique in three acts by Adolphe Adam to a French libretto by Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick.
Adolphe Adam, 1850
Prévost and Chollet as Madeleine and Chapelou
A postilion or postillion is a person who guides a horse-drawn coach or post chaise while mounted on the horse or one of a pair of horses. By contrast, a coachman controls the horses from the vehicle itself.
Postilions at the funeral of President Reagan, 2004
Postilions control the horses drawing the Queen's Coach at the State Opening of Parliament, London 2015
ANZAC horses and postilions struggle to move a gun, Passchendaele, 1917, by Harold Septimus Power
Royal Mews postilion livery