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Marchand-mercier  kalma ce ta Faransa ga wani nau'in ɗan kasuwa da ke aiki a wajen tsarin ƙungiyar masu sana'a amma an takaita ta da ƙa'idodin kamfani a ƙarƙashin ƙa'idodin da aka tsara a 1613.  Kalmar reduplicative  a zahiri tana nufin ɗan kasuwa mai kaya, amma a ƙarni na 18 ta ɗauki ma'anar ɗan kasuwa mai kayan aiki . Ana iya samun farkon ambaton wannan Corps de la Ville de Paris a ƙarshen ƙarni na 16,  amma a ƙarni na 18 marchands-merciers masu shago ne amma kuma sun taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen ƙawata gidajen Paris. A zahiri, sun yi aiki a matsayin 'yan kwangila na gabaɗaya, suna tsara da kuma ba da umarnin sassa na kayan daki mafi salo, kuma sau da yawa, ƙari ga haka, suna aiki a wajen shagunansu a matsayin masu ƙawata cikin gida, waɗanda ke da alhakin fannoni da yawa na kayan ado na ɗaki. A Paris, tsarin ƙungiyar, wanda aka kafa tun ƙarshen Zamanin Tsakiya, ya hana masu sana'a yin aiki da duk wani abu da ba su yi aikin koyarwa na yau da kullun ba. Saboda haka, ma'aikacin marchand-mercier ne kawai zai iya ɗora faranti na China masu hannu da tagulla mai launin zinare, ya sanya kayan ɗakin mai yin kabad da lacquer na Japan ko allunan porcelain na Sèvres, sannan ya samar da kayan daki masu tsada da aka yi da tagulla mai launin zinare (ko ormolu ). 

An tsara layukan da aka yarda su yi amfani da su a ƙarƙashin Charles IX, a cikin 1570, kamar haka:"'Yan kasuwa masu sayar da kayayyaki, masu labule da masu yin kayan ado, ta yadda a ƙarƙashin wannan matsayin dillali ( estat de grossier ) a kowane lokaci ana haɗa su da dillalan yadi na zinariya, azurfa, siliki... tapestries, kayan ado, kayan ƙanshi, yadi, jan ƙarfe da aka ƙera, zare na siliki, kayan aiki da makamantansu, waɗanda ba a yarda a yi wani abu da aka ƙera ba, sai dai kawai a sayar, a saya, a nuna, a yi ado da kuma a ƙawata kowane irin kaya" Don haka an siffanta masu cin amana a cikin Encyclopédie a matsayin "masu sayar da komai, masu yin komai ba tare da wani abu ba". [1] Jacques Savary des Bruslons ya yi cikakken bayani game da wannan magana mai ban dariya kuma ya bayyana yadda tsaransa suka raina sana'o'in hannu:"Wannan kamfani ana ɗaukarsa a matsayin mafi daraja da kuma mafi kyau daga cikin dukkan Kamfanonin 'Yan Kasuwa, musamman saboda waɗanda suka tsara shi ba sa aiki ko kaɗan kuma ba sa yin aikin hannu, idan ba don ƙawata waɗannan abubuwan da aka riga aka yi kuma aka ƙera ba" 

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The role of marchands-merciers was outlined by Louis Courajod in his edition of the day-book of Lazare Duvaux (1873), more firmly sketched by Pierre Verlet, "Le commerce des objets d'art et les marchands merciers à Paris au XVIIIe siècle", Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 13.1 (January/March 1958:10-29) and has been recently analyzed by Carolyn Sargentson, Merchants and Luxury Markets: The Marchands Merciers of Eighteenth-Century Paris (Victoria and Albert Museum) 1996.