His transport scheme was a huge success, although not as he had intended as most of his passengers did not visit his spa. The first vehicles stopped in front of the shop of a hatter named Omnés, which displayed a large sign inscribed 'Omnes Omnibus', a pun on his Latin-sounding surname, omnes being the male and female nominative, vocative and accusative form of the Latin adjective omnis-e ('all'), combined with omnibus, the dative plural form meaning 'for all', thus giving his shop the name 'Omnés for all', or 'everything for everyone'. In order to encourage customers he started a horse-drawn transport service from the city centre of Nantes to his establishment. A by-product of his mill was hot water, and thus next to it he established a spa business. The name originates from a mass-transport service started in 1823 by a French corn-mill owner named Stanislas Baudry in Richebourg, a suburb of Nantes. The theoretical full name is in French voiture omnibus ('vehicle for all'). Bus is a clipped form of the Latin adjectival form omnibus ('for all'), the dative plural of omnis-e ('all').
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