Immigration to Spain is not a current phenomenon. During the Ancien Régime, numerous people of other nationalities emigrated to Spain in search of new opportunities and social advancement. The specific case of this resource refers to the trades that the French settled in Saragossa in the 17th and 18th centuries. According to the marriage records, 104 French settlers were counted in Saragossa. Of these, 84 worked as “employees”; 16 as “self-employed”; and 4 in an unknown employment situation. Of the 84 contracted, 21 were bakers, a much higher number than any other trade, followed by 8 labourers, 6 weavers and 5 servants. But the high disposition in the baker’s trade was not accompanied by a promotion in this sector, as only 1 was a master baker. Finally, there may have been cases in which immigrants sought shortcuts to social advancement outside the law, as in the case of Juan Sarto, a Frenchman who forged documents from the University of Zaragoza and parish books to pass himself off as Aragonese.

Collection: Statistics

Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.

Chronology: XVII, XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://www.adeh.org/revista/2003,%201/Salas%20Ausens%20p.141-165.pdf

Resource type: Statistics

Format: Table

Source: Salas Auséns, J. A. (2003). “Buscando vivir en la ciudad: trayectorias de los inmigrantes franceses en los siglos XVII y XVIII”, en Revista de Demografía Histórica, XXI, I, p. 159.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2003

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©Revista de Demografía Histórica ©José Antonio Salas Auséns

Abstract: Trades practised by the French settlers in Saragossa in the 17th and 18th centuries

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