at Amiens sixty-four, and at Troyes fifty,
also Chalons-sur-Marne, at Angers twenty-seven. The edicts of 1776
reduced them to forty-four at Paris, and to twenty as the maximum for
the principal towns within the jurisdiction of the Paris parliament.
- "Each guild formed a city within a city . . . Like the communes,
it had its special laws, its selected chiefs, its assemblies, its own
building or, at least, a chamber in common, its banner, coat-of-arms
and colors." - Ibid., " Histoire de Troyes Pendant la Revolution," I.,
13, 329. Trade guilds and corporations bear the following titles,
drawn up in 1789, from the files of complaints: apothecaries, jewelers
and watch-makers, booksellers and printers, master-barbers, grocers,
wax and candle-makers, bakers and tailors, master shoemakers, eating-
house-keepers, inn-keepers and hatters, master-masons and plasterers
in lime and cement, master-joiners, coopers and cabinet-makers,
master-cutlers, armorers, and polishers; founders, braziers, and pin-
makers; master-locksmiths, ironmongers, tinsmiths and other metal
workers, vinegar-makers, master-shearers, master rope-makers, master-
tanners, dealers and master-dyers and dressers; master saddle and
harness-makers, charcoal-burners, carters, paper-makers and band-box-
makers, cap-makers and associates in arts and trades.
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