Abstract
Astrategic marriage to a daughter or widow of a master craftsman could launch the career of a Bordeaux patron leather tradesman. Autonomous status as a self-employed shopkeeper was the key to ascension in the social and economic hierarchy of the eighteenth-century trades. Although admission into the ranks of guild masters represented the pinnacle of achievement for most artisans, establishment in one of the leather trades also could be attained legally within the privileged sauvetats of Saint-André and Saint-Seurin or even illegitimately within the corporate sphere. Despite these extra-corporate and illicit professional avenues, ascension to the ranks of master craftsmen represented the most promising and honorable way to autonomous establishment and social and professional advancement in the eighteenth-century trades.1
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Heimmermann, D. (2014). Establishment in the Bordeaux Leather Trades. In: Work, Regulation, and Identity in Provincial France. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438591_6
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