Salomon de La Broue

{{Short description|French riding-master and Gascon gentleman}}

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| name = Salomon de La Broue

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| birth_date = {{circa|1530}}

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| death_date = {{circa|1610}}

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| nationality = French

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| occupation = Riding-master

| known_for = {{ubl|Preceptes Principaux, 1593|Cavalerice françois, 1602}}

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Salomon de La Broue ({{circa|1530|1610}}) was a French {{Interlanguage link multi|Écuyer (horseman)|fr|3=Écuyer (gentilhomme)|lt=écuyer}} or riding-master{{r|bnf}} and Gascon gentleman.{{r|pat|page=353}} His treatise on riding, published as the Preceptes Principaux in 1593, was the first to have been written in French.{{r|bnf|pat|page2=353}} Like Antoine de Pluvinel, he was a pupil of Gianbattista Pignatelli.{{r|lance|pat|page2=353}} De La Broue was écuyer to Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, the first Duke of Épernon, and écuyer ordinaire of the {{Interlanguage link multi|Grande Écurie du Roi|fr|3=Grande Écurie}} in the reign of Henri IV.{{r|lance}}

De La Broue, like Pluvinel, was one of the founders of the old French haute école. His methods centred on calmness in hand, freedom and lightness in order to obtain the best results from the horse; he rejected the use of force or constraint in training.{{r|pat|page=58–59}}