In addition to their wages, shoemakers often received room and board from their employers. This was especially common for apprentices, who typically lived with their master shoemaker and learned the trade by working alongside them.
Shoemaking was a skilled trade that required years of training and experience. As a result, shoemakers were generally well-respected members of their communities. They were often called upon to serve in local government and other positions of responsibility.
Parisian laundress, Victorine Gorget (1843 – 1901) actively participated in the Paris Commune, during which she was considered a leader. The great Victorine Daughter of Eléonore Cochon and Edmet Gorget, Victorine Gorget was born on April 20, 1843 in Paris. The journalist Henri Rochefort will indic
Jacques Clément is a friar of the Dominican order. A Catholic fanatic, he took the side of the League during the wars of religion. He plans to assassinate King Henry III who was excommunicated by the Pope and who had the Duke of Guise assassinated. It is in Saint Cloud that he meets him, he pretends
He is part of a family of French painters, sculptors and scholars. He himself was a writer and astronomer, he belonged from 1785 to the three academies (French, Fine Arts and Sciences). Member of the Third Estate, he became President of the National Assembly. After the storming of the Bastille, he i
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