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Jasmin: Barber

CHAPTER III
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But this part of the work is reserved for future chapters.
Endnotes to Chapter III.
{1} Magasin des Enfants.
{2} Mes Nouveaux Souvenirs.
{3} In England, some barbers, and barber's sons, have eventually occupied the highest positions.

Arkwright, the founder of the cotton manufacture, was originally a barber.

Tenterden, Lord Chief Justice, was a barber's son, intended for a chorister in Canterbury Cathedral.
Sugden, afterwards Lord Chancellor, was opposed by a noble lord while engaged in a parliamentary contest.

Replying to the allegation that he was only the son of a country barber, Sugden said: "His Lordship has told you that I am nothing but the son of a country barber; but he has not told you all, for I have been a barber myself, and worked in my father's shop,--and all I wish to say about that is, that had his Lordship been born the son of a country barber, he would have been a barber still!" {4} OEUVRES COMPLETES DE JACQUES JASMIN: Preface de l'Edition,, Essai d'orthographe gasconne d'apres les langues Romane et d'Oc, et collation de la traduction litterale.

Par Boyer d'Agen.


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