Second-Hand Clothing Seller
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Le Marchand fripier | The Second-Hand Clothes Seller
The second-hand clothes salesman ("Le Marchand d'habits", 1859 engraving (artist unknown), Paris Musées).
A marchand fripier, or second-hand clothes seller, sold only previously-used clothing and fabrics of all kind, including sheets, wool, cloth, felt, leather, etc. The merchant could sell his wares from a shop or his home, or he could be an itinerant, or travelling, salesman, peddling clothing in the streets of towns and cities.
Source: Alfred Franklin, Dictionnaire historique des arts, métiers et professions exercés dans Paris depuis le treizième siècle (Paris, H. Welter, 1906), 346-348.