St. FIACRE 



1640 a man of the name of Sauvage started an establish- 

 ment in Paris from which he let out carriages for hire. 

 He took a house for this business in the Rue St. Martin, 

 and the house was known as the Hotel de St. Fiacre, 

 and there was a figure of the Saint over the doorway. 



All the coaches plying from here began to be called, 

 for short, fiacres, and the drivers placed images of the 

 Saint on their carriages, and claimed him as their patron. 



There is a Pardon of St. Fiacre in Brittany ; and there 

 are churches and altars to him all over France. 



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