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André - Coiffeur
Patrons-coiffeurs were also bitterly divided among themselves in their attitudes to work and politics, the lines drawn principally between artisan coiffeurs and proprietors of larger, more commercialised salons.
Indeed, it could be said with almost perfect statistical accuracy that patron-coiffeur equalled artisan.
First, the average ouvrier-coiffeur was not very well off, earning a bit more than an ouvriertanneur or cordonnier, a bit less than an assistant cabinet maker or plumber.
More than this, it was strikingly similar to some of the plans being drawn up at that very moment by coiffeurs themselves.
It concludes that the regime offered coiffeurs more in the way of gestures than genuine solicitude.
As a rule, the government, more interested in restraining inflation than in pleasing hairdressers, listened to the coiffeurs' demands and then promptly disregarded them.
From a strictly economic point of view, however, liberation and democracy did not much improve the circumstances of patrons coiffeurs.
Politics aside, the foremost problem was to provide coiffeurs with the stuff they needed for work.
