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Relaxation of entry requirements for fashion merchants
- When
- 1776
- Where
- City of Paris
From 1776 onwards, women no longer needed to be the wife of a mercer to work as a fashion merchant in Paris.
A consequence of the 1776 guild reorganisation was a change in who could practice the trade: from 1776 onwards, it was no longer necessary to be the wife of a mercer to work as a fashion merchant. This opened the profession, now formalized in the Marchandes de modes guild, to a broader group of women within Paris.
Sources
- Marchande de modes Wikipedia, revision of 2026-01-18
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