Guilds in the Middle Ages

by Georges François Renard

[119] Quoted by Michelet, Histoire de France, vol. v. p. 312.

[120] Levasseur, vol. ii. p. 138.

[121] J. Bodin, De la République, bk. iii. chap. viii.

[122] See Boissonnade, vol. ii. pp. 360, 465; Bourgeois, vol. ii. p. 243. The master saddlers of Blois (1593) asked the king to grant them statutes “similar to those of Tours and other free towns of this kingdom.”

[123] They even formed guilds, as, for instance, the dressmakers’ guild, which owed its existence to Colbert.

[124] Ashley, Economic History, vol. ii. p. 13.

[125] Mantoux, La Révolution industrielle au XVIII^me siècle, p. 65.

[126] Cantini, Legislazione toscana, x. chap. xxix. and xxx.

[127] Misul, Le Arti Fiorentini, passim.

[128] Boissonnade, Essai sur l’organisation du travail en Poitou, depuis le XI^me siècle jusqu’à la Révolution, vol. ii. p. 79.