Franceses - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:16:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Franceses - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Activities of French immigrants in Saragossa (17th-18th centuries) https://historylab.es/activities-of-french-immigrants-in-saragossa-17th-18th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=activities-of-french-immigrants-in-saragossa-17th-18th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/actividades-de-los-inmigrantes-franceses-en-zaragoza-siglos-xvii-xviii/ Trades practised by the French settlers in Saragossa in the 17th and 18th centuries

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]]> 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.

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