Every day, many users of public transport, while waiting for the arrival of a bus or coach and thus protecting themselves from the weather, take refuge without knowing it under a... shelter, a word unknown to the majority of the French population, apart from the people of Nantes.
The French Academy supports the use of bus shelter and prefers it to Abribus, a registered trademark of the J.-C. Decaux company.
“Between dawn (dawn) and dawn there is no relation of filiation”,
Maurice Grevisse confirms to us in his book
Problems of Language.
The word goes back to the old French
hobe,
borrowed from the high German
Hübe
(roof of an aedicule), from the Germanic
Hübon
(vault) according to
Le Robert.
Historical dictionary of the French language
.
In some parts of France, aubette is synonymous with newsstand.
To complete the transformation of this sidewalk, the urinal would be moved, which would be installed near the tram shelter and parallel to the wall
André Hallays, “Strolling through France.
From Brittany to Saintonge” (1914)
