Hawker

The word hawker comes from Latin comportare “to transport” who is to be brought closer to coltiner (to carry a heavy burden on the neck, the shoulders, the head being protected by a coltin (prolonged hairstyle of a part of Cuir protecting the collar and the shoulders). The hawkers were travelling merchants who transported their goods in " balles" out of wood from where the other term of porteballe.
“Hawker is a term reserved for those which carried their display in front of them on the chest suspended to the collar”.

Market products by the hawker

He sells a large range of products of which books, bulletins, newspapers, fabrics, Mercerie.

Other characteristics

This travelling merchant announces his passage while shouting.

Examples

In the film " the Trace " , Joseph is a hawker who must cross the Alps with an only aim of selling his articles of drapery. Pierre Arnaud, hero of the historical novel " Barcelonnettes" of Anne Vallaeys and Alain Dugrand, is hawker before embarking for Mexico.

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