Noms de Profession:
Français = Anglais
abbé = abbot
accapareur = monoploist, hoarder (esp of grain)
administrateur (d'une faillite) = receiver and manager
agent national = direct representative of central government at district and municipal levels
aide de camp = aide-de-camp
Ancien = member of the `Council of Elders'
arrondissement = district
assermentés = priests who had sworn the oath of allegiance
avocat-général = deputy prosecutor in a parliament
basoche, bazoche = body of clerks attached to the parliaments of Paris and some other provincial cities.
bureaucrate = office worker, functionary
capitouls = municipal magistrates of Toulouse
chanteuse d'opéra = opera singer
chancellier = chancellor
chef, directeur du personnel = personel manager
chef de bataillon = major
chirurgien esthétique = plastic surgeon
closier = economically dependant peasant
commissaire = superintendant, police chief, representatif, commissary
commissaire aux accaparements = local commissioners entrusted with the execution of law
commissaires aux armées = political commissaries
commissaires du pouvoir exécutif = functionnaries entrusted with general surveillance of the execution of legislation
commune = village or town
comptable agréé = chartered accountant
comte = count
couturier = fashion designer
curé = parish priest
dauphin = son and presumptive heir of the king of France
département = department
designer = interior designer
directeur commercial = sales manager
directeur général = general manager
directeur, gérant = manager
duc = duke
échevin = principal county magistrat
économiste = economist
écuyer = squire
endocrinologist = endocrinologue
exécuteur = executor
exécutif (d'affaires) = (business) executive
habitant = resident
homme politique = politician
hommes d'armes = men-at-armes
intendant = intendant (agent du pouvoir royal, investi d'attributions illimitées dans une ou plusieurs provinces.) There is one in each généralité.
journalier = day labourer
juge de paix = Justice of the Peace
maître des requêtes = select group of venal lawyers and bureaucrats, from whose ranks major royal administrators (councillors of state, intendants, ect) were drawn.
manoeuvrier, manouvrier = day labourer
maréchal, aux = (armée française) marshal (of France); (armée britannique) field marshal
maréchal de camp = brigadier
maréchal des logis = sergant (artillary, cavarlry ect)
maréchal des logis-chef = battery or squadron sergeant-major
maréchal-ferrant = blacksmith
marquis = marquis
médecin = physician, medical practitioner
menuisier = carpenter
municipalité = administrators (mayor, ect) of each commune.
ouvriers = workers
pharmacien = pharmacist
prévot = provost, provost marshal
préfet de police = police chief, commisionner
prieur = prior
procureur = attorney, procuator
procureur du roi = royal officials attatched to themain financial and judicial bodies and responsible for protecting the crown's interests.
procureur-général-syndic = elected officials who from 1790 were attached to the administration of each departement and who represented the juridicial power and ensured the application of laws. They were replaced by commissaires du pouvoir exécutif.
procureur-syndic = official opperating at district level
producteur délégué = executive producer
psychologue = psychologist
rapporteur = member of a committee or council entrusted with presenting business.
représentants du peuple = members of the National Assembly in the 1790's.
représentants en mission = deputies sent to rally the provinces and supervise the war effort. Those attached to the armies were also refered to as représentants aux armées.
robin = magistrat, high state functionary
roturier = commoner
sectionnaires = politically active members of the Paris sections.
seigneur = lord
sieur = master
suppléant = subtitute deputies to the EG and to successive legislatures
syndic = representaive of a parish, a corporation, ect, who defended the interests of the community in question before the law.
trésoriers de France = officials grouped normally into a bureau de finances in each généralité which had jurisdiction over a wide range of financial matters.
varlet = valet, page du roi
vicaire = assistant to the curé in a parish
vice president = vice-président
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