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What would people today, in modern English-speaking countries, call the sort of carriage that was called a coupé in Paris around 1875? One of the minor characters in La Dame aux camelias gives his call girl sweetheart a coupé for her birthday but can't afford to give her any horses, so she complains about it at a party. Might it be called a surrey, a brouham, or perhaps a coupe?
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