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Les Femmes Cochères à Paris no. 2257

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Les Femmes Cocher / 17

Mme. Charnier / 6

Picture (left): Mme. Charnier, first customers.

The first customers to hire Mme. Charnier and Mme. Dufaut were reporters for the major Paris newspapers.

The carriage normally used as a fiacre was called a cabriolet which has given us the word "cab". The earliest cabriolets were light, two-wheeled vehicles which bounced so violently over rough roads that they were said to "cabrioler", or caper like a goat. The terms cabriolet, capricorn, caper, Isle of Capris and capris pants are all derived from the Latin word for goat.