Hôtel de Saint Fiacre

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Hôtel de Saint Fiacre was an inn and tavern in the rue St-Martin in Paris. [1] It was identified by its sign showing Saint Fiacre, [2] and from the 1640s its proprietor was known to operate fiacres (carriages for hire). [3] Through this association Saint Fiacre has become the patron saint of taxi drivers. [4]

In 1645, Nicholas Sauvage, proprietor in Paris of the coaches for Amiens, decided to set up a business in which horses and carriages were to be kept in Paris and rented out. He set himself up in the Hôtel de Saint Fiacre and rented out his four-seater carriages at 10 sols an hour. Within twenty years, Sauvage's idea had developed into the first citywide public transport system "les carossses à 5 sols" ("5-sol carriages"). [5] The sign of the inn was known to display an image of the saint.

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References

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  2. "St. Fiacre". Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11 July 2014.; the narrow alley, ruelle de St-Fiacre, opening off rue St-Martin in the 6th Arrondissement, survived into the 19th century: see Dictionnaire topographique, étymologique et historique des rues de Paris, 1812: "FIACRE (cul-de-sac Saint-).
  3. Henri Sauval, Histoire et Recherches sur les Antiquités de la ville de Paris, 1724,noted in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, 69 1867:595.
  4. Anderson, John P. (1 July 2009). Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah. Universal-Publishers. p. 226. ISBN   978-1-59942-901-4.
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