Mary Allen
#4 Further crossings of terriers and pugs are not improbable.
What is certain, however, is that the prick ears that are so typical today were first bred in France as a breed characteristic.
#5 The dog breed returned to England around 1900, but was initially ridiculed by the population because of its pricked ears.
#6 Because of this, the French Bulldog has long been a lower-class breed.
That only changed when the English King Edward VII acquired a white dog with "bat ears", a kinked tail, and slightly crooked front legs.