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Paris Nouveau no. 2334 – Les Femmes Chauffeur

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Les Femmes Cocher / 9

Introduction / 8

Picture (left): Mme. Decourcelle, the horse-cab driver / chauffeur, driving a taxi in the Bois de Boulogne.

Second, why did these women decide to become horse-cab drivers when the trade was obviously doomed by the rapid increase in motorized taxicabs?

And did all the women who stopped driving horse cabs in 1908 simply go back to their traditionally accepted female roles?