One of the most crucial influences in growing the French bulldog’s popularity was their favor with late-19th and early-20th-century Parisian “belles de Nuit”.
In fact, these French prostitutes were the first to call dogs the breed “Bouledogues Francais,” or French bulldogs.
The name caught on quickly with other French bohemians, writers and artists, and spread from there.
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