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Paris Nouveau no. 2316 – Les Femmes Cocher

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Les Femmes Cocher / 41

Mme. Moser / 4

Picture (left): In the Bois de Boulogne; with them you aren't afraid of getting lost.

Madame Moser is accompanied by her little dog. Vance Thompson wrote in The Paris Cabman in 1903 that nine out of ten Paris cab drivers had dogs riding with them. Nowadays many Paris taxi drivers are accompanied by dogs. In the 1990s Rene Varenkamp, a Netherlands correspondent of the TAXI-L listserv, was told by Paris drivers that the dogs were brought along "for safety reasons".