Cabs

Cab demonstration in Versailles: traffic disruption on Wednesday June 4

A demonstration by cab drivers is scheduled for this Wednesday, June 4, 2025, starting at 9am in Versailles (Yvelines), to protest against new pricing for patient transport. The town center, particularly the Avenue de Paris, will be heavily impacted.

Ephemeris of September 7 in Paris: The requisitioning of Parisian cabs, the "cabs de la Marne".

On September 6 and 7, 1914, 1,300 Parisian cabs were requisitioned by the French army to send reinforcements to the front line of the Battle of the Marne. The "Taxis de la Marne" carried 6,000 infantrymen, helping to halt the advance of German troops towards Paris.

Paris: a shortage of taxi drivers to be expected in the city

As tourism resumes in Paris, taxi drivers struggle to keep up as there are not enough of them. At peak hours, it is getting harder to find a taxi, and it is not likely to get better.

A man breaks into the Palace of Versailles by night and claims to be the king

A thirty-year-old male broke last night, Saturday October 17, 2020 into the Palace of Versailles. Arrested by the police, covered in a sheet, he claimed he was the king.