Английская Википедия:Hôtel de Saint Fiacre
The Hôtel de Saint Fiacre was an inn and tavern on Rue Saint-Martin in Paris.[1] It was identified by its sign showing Saint Fiacre,[2] 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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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web; 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-).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Louis Jean Nicolas de Monmerque, Les Carrosses à cinq sols, ou les Omnibus du xv11e s1ècle. (Paris: Didot) 1828.
