E-auction 500-411147 - fjt_436980 - CORPORATIONS - PREMIER CORPS DES MARCHANDS DRAPIERS ET TISSERANDS CORPORATIONS - PREMIER CORPS DES MARCHANDS DRAPIERS ET TISSERANDS 1705

CORPORATIONS - FIRST CORPS OF DRAPERS AND WEAVERS

The bodies or corporations were groups of people dedicated to the exercise and defense of the interests and privileges of a profession.. In Paris, among these bodies, a hierarchy had not taken long to form with on the one hand the six "great" bodies, then then 127 various corporations. Among the six great corps, the first was that of draper merchants and woolen weavers. The arms of the six corps were adopted in a general assembly in 1629, and in agreement with the city of Paris, each corps adopted the ships for its arms.. In order to distinguish themselves, each corps took the number of ships corresponding to its order: one ship for the drapers, two for the grocers, three for the haberdashers, four for the furriers, five for the hosiers, the goldsmiths kept their old weapons.. The role of the draper merchant was to study the taste, the requests of his customers and to transmit them to the manufacturer. The corps des drapiers alone had the right to sell wholesale and retail, in stores and in boutiques, all kinds of woolen and silk draperies.. This community had its brotherhood at the Célestins in the chapel of the ten thousand martyrs from the 15th century, then it moved to the Hôtel-Dieu. A purse of 60 of these tokens was distributed to each of the officers of the community.