00:00The word chauffeur was originally used to describe people who did not drive the vehicle
00:08but threw coal or wood into the firebox of the engine room, literally translated from
00:16French.
00:17Where it came from, chauffeur means fireman, stoker.
00:23Since the engine of the first cars was a steam engine, drivers had to fire it up.
00:30So by analogy with the stokers of a steam locomotive, they also began to be called drivers.
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