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==Online Resources==
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*'''1839-1968''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-20655/france-nord-pas-de-calais-mining-personnel?s=275764761 France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais Mining Personnel] at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
== Online Records ==
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-20298/france-national-directory-of-elected-officials?s=275764761 France, National Directory of Elected Officials] at MyHeritage — index ($)
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-20298/france-national-directory-of-elected-officials?s=275764761 France, National Directory of Elected Officials] at MyHeritage — index ($)


== Burgess rolls and guild records (Registres de bourgeoisie et corporations de métiers)  ==
[[Category:France|Business and Occupations]] [[Category:Business and Occupations]]
This record gives citizen lists and inhabitants of a given town; lists of persons entitled to the rights, privileges, and protection of a town or community ranging from 1300-1800. Some as early as the 12th century. Content of these records may include:Names, ages, sometimes social and economic status of citizens, occupations, town of origin, dates when citizenship rights in a town were acquired, sometimes family relationships.
Records are located at the National, departmental, municipal and town archives. These records can cover up to 20% of the population. This may often be helpful for liking several generations and give the town of origin of the ancestor.
 
==French Occupations List==
====A====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| accoucheur  || obstetrician
|-
| accoucheuse  || midwife
|-
| adjudicateur  || judge, awarder
|-
| admodiateur  || national agent
|-
| agent  des  postes  || post office employee
|-
| agent national  || federal agent
|-
| agent voyer || road surveyor, inspector of highways
|-
| anspessade  || rigman, pikeman
|-
| apothicaire  || apothecary, druggist
|-
| appareilleur  || workman (construction)
|-
| apprêteur  || hat trimmer or finisher
|-
| arboriculteur (arboriste)  || arboriculturist, nurseryman
|-
| archichancelier  || grnd chancellor
|-
| archichapelain  || head chaplain
|-
| archidiacre  || archdeacon
|-
| archiviste  || records keeper
|-
| argenteur  || silver plater
|-
| argentier  || treasurer
|-
| argoulet  || mounted archer
|-
| argousin || prison warden
|-
| armateur gérant || ship's husband or manager
|-
| armurier  || armorer, gunsmith
|-
| arpète  || errand boy, apprentice
|-
| arquebusier  || gunsmith
|-
| arrimeur  || stevedore
|-
| artificier  || fire work marker
|-
| artilleur  || artilleryman
|-
| ascensionniste  || climber, balloonist
|-
| asservisseur  || slaver
|-
| assesseur  || assessor
|-
| assureur  || insurer
|-
| aubergiste  || innkeeper
|-
| avant-coureur || herald, forerunner
|-
| aviculteur || poultry farmer
|-
| avocat || lawyer, barrister
|-
| avoyer || Swiss cantonal magistrate
|}
 
====B====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| bachoteur || ferryman
|-
| bailleur || lessor (baner)
|-
| bailli || baillif
|-
| baliseur || buoy tender
|-
| ballonnier || balloon vendor
|-
| bandagiste || truss maker
|-
| bardeur || stone carrier
|-
| barilleur or barillier || cooper
|-
| barnum || showman
|-
| barreur || helmsman
|-
| bateleur || juggler
|-
| bêcheur  || ditch digger
|-
| bedeau || church usher, verger
|-
| berger || shepherd
|-
| bétonnière  || concrete mixer
|-
| beurrier || butter man
|-
| biffin || infantryman
|-
| billardier || billiard, table maker
|-
| bineur || hoer (farmer)
|-
| blasonneur || interpreter of coats of arms
|-
| bloqueur || brakeman
|-
| bluteur || bolt maker
|-
| boiseur || timberman (mining)
|-
| boisselier || bushel maker and cooper
|-
| bossetier || glass blower
|-
| boucher || butcher
|-
| bouchonnier || cork vendor or maker
|-
| bouilleur || distiller of spirits
|-
| boulanger || baker
|-
| bourgeois || townsman, citizen
|-
| bourrelier || harness maker
|-
| bousilleur || adobe builder
|-
| boutillier || cup bearer
|-
| boutonnier || button maker
|-
| boyaudier || gut spinner
|-
| braconnier || poacher
|-
| briqueteur || bricklayer
|-
| briquetier || brick maker
|-
| bûcheron  || woodcutter
|-
| buffetier || room keeper
|-
| burineur || engraver
|}
 
====C====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| cabaretier || tavern-keeper
|-
| cadranier || dial maker
|-
| cageur || raftman
|-
| caillouteur || roadman
|-
| calligraphe || penman
|-
| calotin || churchgoer, priest
|-
| calottier || cap maker
|-
| calvanier || laborer in harvest time
|-
| cambrioleur || burglar
|-
| canetière || spooler (woman)
|-
| canoteur || oarsman
|-
| cantonnier || roadman (worker)
|-
| canut || silk weaver
|-
| capitoril || town councellor
|-
| cardinaliste || partisan of Richelieu or Mazarin
|-
| carreleur || floor tiler
|-
| cartomancien || fortune teller
|-
| cartonneur || book binder
|-
| casernier || barrack warden
|-
| catalogueur || cataloguer
|-
| catégoriseur || one who categorizes
|-
| centurier || maker of belts
|-
| certificateur || certifier
|-
| chagrinier || shagreen maker
|-
| chaineur || chain measurer
|-
| chainiste || chain maker (surveyor)
|-
| chambrier || chamberlain
|-
| chamelier || camel driver
|-
| champêtre || village policeman
|-
| champignonniste || mushroom grower
|-
| chanoine || canon
|-
| chansonnier || song writer
|-
| chapelier || hatter
|-
| chapier || cope bearer
|-
| charcutier || pork butcher
|-
| chargeur || loader, stoker
|-
| chariot || public executioner (eighteenth century Paris)
|-
| charpentier || carpenter, shipwright
|-
| charretier || waggoner
|-
| charron || wheelwright
|-
| chasse-marée  || fish cart driver
|-
| chasseur || hunter
|-
| chasublier || church finisher
|-
| châtreur  || gelder
|-
| châtelain  || castellan
|-
| chaufournier || lime merchant
|-
| chaulier || lime burner
|-
| chaumier || thatcher
|-
| chaussetier || hosier
|-
| chausseur || shoe salesman
|-
| chef  d'escadron || cavalry major
|-
| chef d'orchestre  || bandmaster, conductor
|-
| chef de gare || station master
|-
| cheminot || railwayman
|-
| chemisier || shirt maker
|-
| chevalier-errant || knight-errant
|-
| chevaucheur || rider, horseman
|-
| chevau-léger || light cavalryman
|-
| chevillard || wholesale meat salesman
|-
| chevrière || goat girl
|-
| chiffreur || code maker, cipherer
|-
| chimiste || chemist
|-
| chiromancien || palmist
|-
| chirurgien || surgeon
|-
| choriste || chorister
|-
| Chrétien || Christian
|-
| chroniqueur || chronicler
|-
| chronométreur || time keeper
|-
| cimentier || cement maker
|-
| cingleur || shingler
|-
| cirier || wax worker
|-
| ciseleur || carver, sculptor
|-
| cloutier || nail maker
|-
| cocher || coachman, driver
|-
| coédacteur || co-editor
|-
| colocataire || joint tenant
|-
| colombophile || pigeon breeder
|-
| colon || colonist, planter, farmer
|-
| coltineur || coal porter
|-
| commercant || trader, merchant
|-
| communard || member of the Parish commune
|-
| commis || clerk
|-
| compatable || accountant, expert compatable auditor
|-
| concesseur || grantor (will)
|-
| concierge || doorkeeper, janitor
|-
| conclaviste || attendant priest at conclave
|-
| condisciple || schoolfellow
|-
| conférencier  || lecturer
|-
| confiturier || preserve maker
|-
| connaisseur || expert
|-
| sonteur || story teller
|-
| contrebandier || smuggler
|-
| contrefacteur || counterfeiter
|-
| convayeur || conveying officer, guard
|-
| copain || pal, friend
|-
| copermutant || one who exchanges with another
|-
| copreneur || co-lessee, joint tennant
|-
| corailleur || coral fisher
|-
| cornemuseur || piper
|-
| corroyeur || currier, leather worker
|-
| corsetier || corset maker
|-
| courrier || messenger, courier, post-boy
|-
| cousette || apprentice of a dress maker
|-
| couturier || seamstress
|-
| couventine || nun, convent school girl
|-
| croque-note || street musician
|-
| cuisinier || cook
|-
| cultivateur || farmer
|-
| curé || priest
|}
 
====D====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| débâcleur  || water or port bailiff
|-
| déballeur  || unpacker
|-
| débardeur  || workman who unloads
|-
| décrueur or décruseur || a person who prepares silk for dying
|-
| définiteur  || deputy curate
|-
| défricheur  || clearer, settler
|-
| dégraisseur  || wool scourer
|-
| dégrossisseur || one who rough hews, trims
|-
| dégustateur  || wine taster
|-
| dentellier, ère  || lacemaker (male, female)
|-
| détrousseur  || highwayman, robber
|-
| dévaliseur  || thief, burglar
|-
| devancier || predecessor, ancestor
|-
| diaconesse || deaconess
|-
| diacre || deacon
|-
| diseur || sayer, teller (soothsayer)
|-
| domestique || servant, domestic
|-
| donataire || donee, receiver
|-
| donateur or donneur || donor, giver
|-
| doreur || gilder
|-
| douanier || custom officer
|-
| draveur || raftsman, wood floater
|-
| droguiste || druggist
|-
| drousseur || wool comber
|}
 
====E====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| ébaucheur || workman employed to rough-hew
|-
| ébéniste  || cabinet maker
|-
| éboueur  || road sweeper, scavenger
|-
| ébourgeonneur || bud trimmer, vineyard pruner
|-
| écailler  || oyster man
|-
| échangiste  || exchanger, free trader
|-
| échanson  || cup bearers
|-
| échevin  || sheriff, alderman
|-
| éclusier  || sluceman, lock-keeper
|-
| écorcheur  || knacker, fleecer
|-
| écoreur  || supervisor
|-
| écosseur  || sheller
|-
| écraseur || crusher
|-
| écureur  de marmites  || sponger
|-
| édificateur || builder
|-
| élagueur  || pruner
|-
| embatteur  or embateur || cooper, smith
|-
| embaumeur  || embalmer
|-
| emmancheur  || handle maker
|-
| émondeur  || pruner, trimmer
|-
| émouleur  || knife sharpener
|-
| émpailleur  || chair mender
|-
| encadreur  || frame maker
|-
| encaisseur || cashier
|-
| encaqueur || herring packer
|-
| enchérisseur  || bidder (auction)
|-
| engagé || pledged to military, engaged to be married
|-
| enquêteur  || investigator
|-
| entrebâilleur  || door porter
|-
| entreposeur || warehouse keeper
|-
| entrepreneur de transports || forwarding agent
|-
| entrepreneur de pompes funèbres || undertaker
|-
| entrepreneur de maçonnerie || master mason
|-
| épistolographe || letter writer
|-
| escrimeur  || fencer
|-
| essayeur || assayer, estimator
|-
| essayiste || essayist
|-
| estampeur || stamper
|-
| étalonneur  || inspector of weights
|-
| étameur || tinner, one who makes mirrors
|-
| évaluateur || valuer, appraiser
|-
| éventailliste || fan maker
|-
|}
 
====F====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| facteur || maker, manufacturer, porter, postman
|-
| facturier || invoice clerk
|-
| faisandier || pheasant breeder
|-
| fantassin || foot soldier, infantryman
|-
| farinier || flour dealer
|-
| fauconnier || falconer
|-
| femme de chambre || parlor maid
|-
| femme de charge || housekeeper
|-
| femme de lettres || authoress
|-
| femme poète || poetess
|-
| femme sculpteur || sculptoress
|-
| femme médecin  || doctor (female)
|-
| femme-agent || police woman
|-
| femme-soldat || service woman
|-
| ferblantier || tinman
|-
| fermier || tenant farmer
|-
| ferrant || shoeing smith
|-
| ferreur || shoeing smith
|-
| ficeleur || packer
|-
| flibustier || buccaneer
|-
| flottard || naval cadet
|-
| fondeur || founder, caster
|-
| fontainier || fountain maker
|-
| forban || pirate
|-
| foreur || borer, driller
|-
| forgeron || blacksmith
|-
| fouilleur || excavator
|-
| fouleur || fuller, wine presser
|-
| fourbisseur || furbisher, sword cutter
|-
| fourier || social scientist
|-
| fournier || oven keeper, parish baker
|-
| fourrageur || forager, marauder
|-
| francs-tenancier || freeholder
|-
| frangeuse || fringe maker
|-
| fraudeur || defrauder, smuggler
|-
| fréteur || freighter, charterer
|-
| frocard (coll.) || monk
|-
| fromager || cheese maker
|-
| frotteur || floor scrubber
|-
| fuyard || fugitive, runaway
|}
 
====G====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| gabelou || workman who collects salt tariffs
|-
| gagne-deniers || unskilled worker
|-
| gagne-pain  || breadwinner, livelihood
|-
| gagne-petit || knife grinder
|-
| gainier || sheath maker, scabbard maker
|-
| galibot || pit boy
|-
| gantier || glove maker
|-
| garant || guarantor
|-
| garantisseur || warranter
|-
| garçon de cabine  || cabin steward
|-
| garçon  d'honneur  || bestman
|-
| garçon tailleur  || journeyman tailor
|-
| garae || guard, watchman
|-
| garde de cheval  || horse guard
|-
| garde-port  || harbor master
|-
| gargotier  || keeper of cook shop
|-
| garnisaire || bailiffs man, garrison member
|-
| garnisseur  || trimmer
|-
| gaureur || gofferer, maker of waffles
|-
| gazier || gas fitter
|-
| gazier || gauze maker
|-
| gemmeur || tapper
|-
| geôlier  || jailer
|-
| gérant  || manager, editor
|-
| giboyeur  || fowler, sportsman
|-
| gigolette  || street walker
|-
| giletier || waistcoat maker
|-
| gindre or geindre  || journeyman baker
|-
| gitan || gypsy (male)
|-
| gitane  || gypsy (female)
|-
| glaceur  || glazer
|-
| gobeletier || cup maker or seller
|-
| godilleur || sculler, oarsman
|-
| goujat || soldiers' servant, hod carrier
|-
| gourgandine || harlot
|-
| gradé  || noncommissioned officer
|-
| grainier || seedman
|-
| graisseur || oiler, lubricator
|-
| grand seigneur || grand lord
|-
| grand-prêtre  || high priest
|-
| grand prévôt  || provost marshal
|-
| grand veneur  || master of the hounds
|-
| grappilleur || grape gleaner
|-
| gréeur  || rigger
|-
| greffeur  || grafter
|-
| greffier || registrar, recorder
|-
| grimpeur || climber
|-
| griveleur || pilferer
|-
| gruyer || clerical position, prevot
|-
| guêtrier || gaiter maker
|-
| gueusard,  gueux || beggar, ragamuffin
|}
 
====H====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| habilleur || dresser (theater)
|-
| hache-légumes  || vegetable mincer
|-
| hache-paille || chaff cutter
|-
| hache-viande || mincer
|-
| haleur || hauler, boat tower
|-
| hallier || market or stall keeper
|-
| harengère || fish-wife
|-
| Hébraisant  or  Hébraiste || Hebraist (specialist in Hebrew)
|-
| herbager || grazier
|-
| herbière  || herb woman
|-
| herboriste || herbalist, dealer in herbs
|-
| hercheur || haulage boy
|-
| histrion || actor, stage player
|-
| homme de cheval || horseman
|-
| homme de journée || day laborer
|-
| homme de loi || lawyer
|-
| homme de peine || laborer
|-
| homme de robe || lawyer
|-
| homme-grenouille || frogman
|-
| homme-sandwich || sandwich man
|-
| horloger || clock maker
|-
| hôte,  hôtesse  || host, hostess
|-
| hôtelier  || innkeeper, host
|-
| houilleur  || coal miner
|-
| hucier || bin maker
|-
| huissier || crier of the court, usher
|}
 
====I====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| immigré  || settler, immigrant
|-
| imprimeur  || printer, pressman
|-
| immolateur  || immolator, sacrificer
|-
| inconnu  || unknown person
|-
| indigotier  || indigo manufacturer
|-
| ingénieur  || engineer
|-
| inquisiteur  || inquisitor
|-
| instaurateur  || founder
|-
| interpellateur || questioner
|}
 
====J====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| Jardinier || gardner
|-
| jaugeur || gauger, one who measures capacity
|-
| journalier || journeyman, day laborer
|-
| juge || judge
|-
| juré || juror, juryman
|}
 
====L====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| laboureur || plowman, farmer
|-
| laineur || tea seller
|-
| lainier || wool merchant, worker
|-
| lamaneur || harbor or river pilot
|-
| lamier || heddle maker
|-
| lamineur || flattener, roller
|-
| lampiste || lampmaker, lamplighter
|-
| langueyeur || examiner of hog's tongue
|-
| larron || thief, robber
|-
| laveur || washer, scurrer
|-
| layetier || box maker, packing case maker
|-
| le vicaire de Jésus  Christ || the pope
|-
| lecteur || reader, proofreader
|-
| lépreux  || leper
|-
| lesteur  || ballast heaver
|-
| Lévite  || Levite, ecclesiastic
|-
| libraire  || bookseller, trader
|-
| lignager || kinsman
|-
| limur || filer, wood finisher
|-
| limonadier || lemonade seller
|-
| lisseur || polisher
|-
| littérateur  || literaryman, author
|-
| loueur  || hired out, hired hand
|-
| loueur de bateaux || boat keeper
|-
| loueur de bicyclettes || bicycle renter
|-
| lubrificateur || lubricator
|-
| lunetier || spectacle maker, optician
|-
| lutteur || wrestler
|}
 
====M====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| magister || village schoolmaster
|-
| maieur || (Belgium) mayor
|-
| mairesse || mayoress
|-
| maître d'école || school teacher
|-
| maître d'equipage  || boatswain
|-
| malletier || trunk maker
|-
| malteur  || maltman, maltster
|-
| maltôtier || tax gatherer
|-
| mandant || employer
|-
| manieur || handler, manager
|-
| manoeuvre || common worker
|-
| manoeuvrier || expert seaman, tactician
|-
| manutentionnaire || manager, army storekeeper
|-
| maquignon || horse dealer, go-between
|-
| maraîcher  || market gardener
|-
| marbreur  || marbler
|-
| marbrier || marble cutter, polisher, quarry
|-
| marcaire || stable person
|-
| marchand en détail  || retail merchant
|-
| maréchal || marshal, field marshal
|-
| maréchal ferrant || blacksmith
|-
| mareyeur || fish salesman
|-
| marié  || married man
|-
| marieur  || matchmaker
|-
| marqueteur || inlayer
|-
| marqueur  (euse) || marker, scorer, tally keeper
|-
| marteleur || hammerman
|-
| matelot || sailor, seaman
|-
| mastroquet || pub keeper
|-
| mécanicien  || mechanic, machinist
|-
| mécanicienne  || sewing girl
|-
| médailleur  || die sinker
|-
| mégissier  || tawer, leather dresser
|-
| ménagère  || housewife
|-
| mendiant  || beggar
|-
| menuisier  || joiner, carpenter
|-
| mercier  || haberdasher
|-
| messire  || sire, master, squire
|-
| métreur  || appraiser
|-
| meunier  || miller
|-
| milicier || militiaman
|-
| miroitier || looking glass maker, vendor
|-
| modellist or modéliste || dress designer
|-
| moine || monk, friar
|-
| monnayeur || coiner, minter
|-
| monseigneur || my lord, archbishop
|-
| monteur || setter, mounter of jewels
|-
| montreur || showman, exhibitor
|-
| mousse || cabin boy, ship boy
|-
| mulâtre  || mulatto
|-
| mytiliculteur || mussel breeder
|}
 
====N====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| nielleur || enameller in niello
|-
| niveleur || leveller
|-
| nocher || pilot, boatman
|-
| nolisateur or noliseur || freighter, charterer
|-
| nosologiste || classificator of illnesses
|-
| notaire || notary, solicitor
|-
| nourrice || wet nurse
|-
| nourrisseur || cow keeper, cattle feeder
|-
| nouvelliste || newswriter, short story writer
|}
 
====O====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| oenophile  || wine connoisseur
|-
| officier  reformé || half pay officer
|-
| officiers mariniers  || petty officers
|-
| oiseleur || bird catcher, fowler
|-
| oiselier  || bird seller
|-
| oleiculteur || olive grower or manufacturer
|-
| ornemaniste || sculptor, painter of ornaments
|-
| orpailleur  || gold washer, seeker
|-
| ostréiculteur  || oyster growers
|-
| outilleur || tool maker
|}
 
====P====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| pailleur || dealer in straw
|-
| palefrenier || groom, ostler
|-
| panetier || bread store keeper
|-
| pantouflier || slipper maker
|-
| paqueteur || packer
|-
| parcheminier || parchment maker
|-
| parqueteur || floor layer
|-
| patachon || captain, steersman, coach driver
|-
| patenté  || licensed dealer
|-
| paumier || tennis court keeper
|-
| payeur || payer, pay clerk master
|-
| paysagiste || landscape painter
|-
| peaussier || skinner, skin dresser
|-
| pêcheur  || fisherman
|-
| pédiatre || pediatrician, children's doctor
|-
| peigneur || wool comber
|-
| peignier || comb maker, seller
|-
| peintre || painter
|-
| peintre verrier || painter on glass, stained glass maker
|-
| peloteur || ball maker
|-
| péquenot  || peasant, bumpkin
|-
| perrier  || quarryman
|-
| perruquier  || barber, wigmaker
|-
| peseur  || weigher
|-
| philatéliste  || stamp collector
|-
| piqueur  || outrider, overseer
|-
| piquier  || pike man
|-
| pilote  || pilot, guide
|-
| pisteur  || tout, tracker, spy
|-
| placeur || placer, registry office keeper
|-
| plaqueur  || silver plater
|-
| plombeur  || stamper (custom house)
|-
| plombier  || lead worker, plumber
|-
| plumassier || feather merchant
|-
| poêlier  || stove dealer or maker
|-
| pointilliste || stipple engraver, pointillist
|-
| polisseur || polisher
|-
| pompier || pump maker, fireman
|-
| pompiste || pump attendant
|-
| pontier || bridge keeper
|-
| porcelainier || porcelain maker, worker
|-
| porion || fireman in coal mine
|-
| portageur || toter, carrier
|-
| porte-auge || hod carrier
|-
| porteballe || pedlar, packman
|-
| porte-étendard  || standard bearer, coronet
|-
| portefaix || porter, street porter
|-
| porteflambeau || torchbearer, linkman
|-
| porte-masse || mace bearer
|-
| poseur || one who lays down stones
|-
| posticheur || wig maker
|-
| postier || post office employee
|-
| potard || chemist's clerk
|-
| poudrier || gunpowder maker
|-
| pouldiller || poulterer
|-
| pousse-cailloux || footslogger, infantryman
|-
| précepteur  || tutor, teacher
|-
| prêcheur  || preacher
|-
| premier-né  || firstborn
|-
| prêteur || lender
|-
| prêteur sur gages  || pawnbroker
|-
| prêtre || priest
|-
| prêtresse || priestess
|-
| prévôt  de salle d'armes || fencing master's assistant
|-
| prévot des marchands || provost of the guilds
|-
| prieur || prior (superior of a covenant)
|-
| priseur || snuff taker
|-
| prochain || neighbor
|-
| procureur de la République || public prosecutor
|-
| procureur général  || attorney general
|-
| propriétaire  || landholder
|-
| prosateur || prose writer
|-
| protuteur || acting guardian
|-
| proviseur || headmaster
|-
| pugiliste || boxer, fighter
|}
 
====R====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| radoubeur || ship repairer, caulker
|-
| raffineur || sugar refiner
|-
| ramasseur || gatherer, collector
|-
| rapetasseur || piercer, patcher, cobbler
|-
| ravaudeur || mender
|-
| rebrousseur || striker (of skins)
|-
| recenseur || census taker, enumerator
|-
| receveur des postes || postmaster
|-
| rédacteur || writer, clerk, editor
|-
| redresseur  de  torts  || knight-errant
|-
| rédacteur  gérant  || managing editor
|-
| refouloir || rammer (of a gun)
|-
| regleur || regulator (of clocks), one who rules
|-
| regrattier || huckster, dealer in vegetables and cheese
|-
| réhabilleur  || mender (furniture)
|-
| reître  || Germa horse soldier
|-
| renardier  || fox catcher
|-
| rentier  || renter
|-
| repasseur de couteaux || knife grinder
|-
| répétiteur || private teacher, coach, chorus master
|-
| requérant  || plaintiff, applicant
|-
| résignataire  || resignee
|-
| résinier  || resin tapper
|-
| riboteur  || tippler, boozer
|-
| rimeur || rhymer, versifier
|-
| robin || lawyer
|-
| robinetier || brass smith
|-
| rocailleur || rockwork maker
|-
| rochassier || rock climber
|-
| rôdeur  || prowler, vagrant
|-
| romancier || novelist
|-
| ronchonnot || old retired officer
|-
| rosiériste  || rose grower
|-
| rôtisseur  || cook shop keeper
|-
| rouleur  || traveling journeyman
|-
| roulier  || wagoner, carter, carrier
|-
| rubanier || ribbon maker or vendor
|}
 
====S====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| sabotier || sabot-maker, shoemaker
|-
| sabreur || swashbuckler, cavalry soldier
|-
| sacristine || vestry nun
|-
| saigneur || bleeder, blood letter
|-
| saleur || salter, curer
|-
| sandalier || sandal maker
|-
| sans-emploi || unemployed person
|-
| sans-filiste || wireless operator
|-
| sans-patrie || person without a country
|-
| sans-travail || unemployed person
|-
| sapeur || sapper
|-
| sapeur-telégraphiste || soldier of the signal corps
|-
| sardinier || sardine fisher or packer
|-
| sasseur || sifter, winnower
|-
| satineur || satiner, glazer
|-
| saucier || sauce maker, sauce setter
|-
| saunier || salt-maker, vendor
|-
| sauveteur || rescuer, lifeboat man
|-
| savant || scholar, scientist
|-
| savonnier || soap boiler, manufacturer
|-
| scrutateur || investigator
|-
| secouriste || qualified first aider
|-
| sectateur || follower, votary
|-
| seigneur || lord, nobleman
|-
| sellier || saddler
|-
| semainier || officer, monk, actor
|-
| séranceur || hackler
|-
| sergent-instructeur  || drill sergeant
|-
| serger or sergier  || serge weaver
|-
| serrurier || locksmith
|-
| sertisseur  || setter, mounter
|-
| servreuse  || dry nurse
|-
| sicaire  || hired assassin
|-
| sioniste  || zionist
|-
| siroteur || tippler
|-
| soiriste || drama critic
|-
| soldat réformé  || invalid veteran
|-
| sommelier || butler, cellarman
|-
| soudard || old soldier, mercenary
|-
| souffleur de verre || glass blower
|-
| sous-bibliothécaire || assistant librarian
|-
| sous-chef || deputy head clerk or manager
|-
| sous-commissaire || undercommissary, assistant paymaster
|-
| souscripteur || subscriber, underwriter
|-
| souscrivant || underwriter
|-
| sous-diacre || subdeacon
|-
| sous-directeur || submanager
|-
| sous-économe  || subtreasurer
|-
| sous-fermier  || under-lessee
|-
| sous-governeur  || deputy-governor
|-
| sous-intendant  || deputy-commissary
|-
| sous-lieutenant  || second lieutenant
|-
| sous-lieutenant aviateur  || pilot officer
|-
| sous-Jocataire || undertenant, subtenant
|-
| sous-officier || noncommissioned officer
|-
| sous-préfet || subprefect, under-sheriff
|-
| sous-secrétaire  || under-secretary
|-
| statuaire  || sculptor of statues
|-
| stockiste  || warehouseman or agent
|-
| sucrier || sugar maker, vendor
|}
 
====T====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| taillandier || edge tool maker
|-
| tailleur d'habits || tailor
|-
| tailleur de pierre || stone cutter
|-
| talonnier || heel maker
|-
| tamiseur || sifter
|-
| tamisier || sieve maker or vendor
|-
| tâteur  || feeler, taster, waverer
|-
| taupier  || mole catcher
|-
| tavernier || tavern keeper
|-
| taxateur || taxer, assessor
|-
| teilleur or tilleur || scutcher
|-
| teinturier || dyer
|-
| tendeur || setter of snares
|-
| teneur de livres || bookkeeper
|-
| theatin || theatine (monk)
|-
| timbreur || stamper
|-
| timonier || steersman, helmsman
|-
| tirailleur || sharpshooter, skirmisher
|-
| tireur || marksman, rifleman
|-
| tisserand || weaver
|-
| tisseur || weaver
|-
| titulaire || titular, incumbent, bearer
|-
| toilier || dealer in linen, manufacturer of linen
|-
| toiseur || measurer, quantity surveyor
|-
| tôlier  || manufacturer of sheet-iron
|-
| tombeur || housebreaker, demolition worker
|-
| tondeur de drap || cloth shearer
|-
| tonsuré || cleric, priest
|-
| tordeur || twister (silk)
|-
| tourbier || peat worker, runner of peat bog
|-
| tourier || monk or non attending the turn box
|-
| toumasseur || thrower of pottery
|-
| traitant || tax farmer
|-
| traiteur || restaurant keeper, caterer
|-
| traqueur || beater (in hunting)
|-
| travailleur || worker, labourer
|-
| trayeur || milker
|-
| treillageur or treillagiste || trellis maker or vendor of lattice
|-
| trempeur || temperer, whetter
|-
| trésorier  || treasurer
|-
| tresseur  || plaiter, braider
|-
| tricoteur || knitter
|-
| trieur || sorter, picker
|-
| trimardeur || tramp, vagabond workman
|-
| tringlot || trooper in the baggage train
|-
| tripotier || gaming house keeper
|-
| trouveur || discoverer, inventor
|-
| tulliste || tulle maker or seller
|}
 
====U====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| urbaniste || city designer, town planner
|-
| usinier || manufacturer, millowner
|-
| usurier || usurer
|}
 
====V====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| vaguemestre || baggage master
|-
| vandevilliste || vaudeville writer
|-
| vannier || basket maker
|-
| veilleur de nuit || night watchman
|-
| velite || light armed soldier, skirmisher
|-
| veloutier || velvet weaver
|-
| vendeur || vendor, seller, salesperson
|-
| verdurier || greengrocer
|-
| vergetier || brush maker
|-
| vérificateur || verifier, examiner, inspector
|-
| verrier || glass maker
|-
| vicaire général  || vicar-general
|-
| vice-gérant || deputy manager
|-
| vice-reine  || wife of viceroy
|-
| vice-roi || viceroy
|-
| vidame || vidame (minor noble)
|-
| vidangeur || nightman, scavenger
|-
| vieux troupier || old campaigner
|-
| vigie || look-ut man
|-
| vigneron || wine-dresser, wine grower
|-
| vignettiste || vignette engraver
|-
| vilain || village peasant
|-
| vinaigrier || vinegar maker, merchant
|-
| viseur || aimer (artillery)
|-
| viticulteur || vine grower
|-
| vitrier || glass maker, glazier
|-
| vivandier || sutler, canteen manager
|-
| voilier || sail maker, sailer
|-
| voleur || thief, robber
|-
| voltigeur || light infantry soldier, rifleman
|-
| voué  || one who vows
|-
| voyageur  || traveller
|-
| vrillier || gimlet maker
|}
 
====W====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| wattman || tram driver
|}
 
====X====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| xylographe || xylographer, wood engraver
|}
 
====Z====
{| class="wikitable"
! French !! English
|-
| zingueur || zinc worker
|}
 
== References  ==
 
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