11/08/2026
This telephone booth still stands in the middle of the center of Cadouin. At its peak in 1997, there were approximately 300,000 telephone booths (cabines téléphoniques) in France. With the rise of the mobile phone, usage declined rapidly from the beginning of the 21st century. With the French "Loi Macron" of 2015, the legal obligation for provider Orange to maintain public telephone booths was abolished, after which virtually all of them were dismantled or converted into, for example, mini-libraries (boîtes à livres) just like this one. The word never stopped spreading into this one.
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Photo: Richard Poppelaars - Photography at
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