Renault AX. Source.
The taxi on pages 2 to 5 and the little car that Lemboîté repairs on page 58 of Bécassine Mobilisée are both Renaults. You can tell by the shape of the hood. It's hard to believe now, but by the end of World War One, there had been cars on the road for twenty years, and so the automobile junkyard was a thing. The reason why the French government was in the used car business was that it expropriated hundreds of autos in 1915 to get the troops to the front in a hurry. So many Renaults ended up in government service that way that they became known as the Taxi of the Marne.
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