Paris Moderne no. 2902 (?) – Les Autotax

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Les Femmes Cocher / 121

Les Femmes Chauffeur / 10

Picture (left): Young chauffeuse, old horse-cab driver.

The caption is too blurry to read, but the gist is that the old cab driver is philosophical about the brave new world of automobiles and women drivers.

In fact horse cab drivers bitterly resented the motorized taxicabs which quickly drove them out of business.

In 1900 Paris had 11,097 horse-drawn cabs and only 115 motor cabs, most of them electric. By 1907 there were 9,608 horse cabs, down by nearly 1,500 from 1900, while motor cabs – now mostly gasoline-powered – had increased to 2,359.

By 1911 there were more motor cabs than horse cabs, and by 1919 only 1,144 of the 14,651 Paris cabs were drawn by horses.