| Title: | Rag seller |
| Original Title: | Chiffonnier |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 3 (1753), p. 333 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Abigail Wendler Bainbridge [West Dean College] |
| Subject terms: |
Papermaking
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Rag seller." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.774>. Trans. of "Chiffonnier," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 3. Paris, 1753. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Rag seller." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.774 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Chiffonnier," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 3:333 (Paris, 1753). |
Rag-seller. Name that one gives to people who sell old rags or drapeaux of linen or hemp, destined for papermaking. One also calls them pattiers, drilliers, or peilliers. [1]
The rag-sellers go in cities and villages to buy and collect old rags, they also look in the trash on streets; & after having washed them well they sell them to the Papermakers when they need them, or to people who have paper stores, to re-sell themselves to the papermakers.
The export of rags is prohibited. We have already noted elsewhere that there would be some material that would be lost or be burned, and which could be easily used in papers. Such are the off-cuts of gauze-makers. [2]
Police have also ensured that the rag-sellers, in washing their rags and storing them, do not infect the air or the water, by relegating their stores to outside the city centers where inhabitants will draw the water they drink.
Notes
1. Eighteenth-century French contained many words for rag-seller.
2. Telles sont les recoupes des gasiers .