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Cartoon by Xavier Sager.

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Les Femmes Cocher / 5

Introduction / 4

Picture (left): Ah! Women cab drivers... Myself, when I'm bored, I spend an hour alone with a woman... for 40 sous!!

Luckily for us, the femmes cocher phenomenon coincided with an international postcard mania which reached its height between 1900 and 1918. The mania reflected an insatiable public hunger for pictures, a hunger which illustrated magazines and newspapers did not yet monopolize.

Probably 200 or more femmes cocher postcards were published. Most carried photos of the first women drivers to appear on the streets, but there were also cartoons and other humorous cards on the femmes cocher theme.