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Well, there are really two reasons that one can give.
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One is that what happens because of the French Revolution,
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to craftsmen in Germany, in parts of Italy and in France,
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is that it opens the doors and the guild protections are gone.
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Anybody can be any trade you want.
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Laissez-faire capitalism, you want to be a plumber,
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you can be a plumber;
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you want to be a tailor,
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you can be a tailor.
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And, so, all of a sudden in Paris in the 1830s, '40s and '50s
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there's all sorts of wagons being pushed through the street
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with beautifully made clothes on them,