Some more interesting fanmaking info from that book, Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes (1850):
The number of fan-makers or Eventaillistes in Paris in 1827, was 15, who employed 1,010 workmen (344 men, 500 women, and 166 children), and sold about 40,420 l worth of fans.
According to Statisque sur l’Industrie à Paris”, drawn up by our colleagues M.Natalis Rondot and M.Say, it appears that in 1847 there were 122 fan-makers, comprising chamber-masters as mounters, feuillistes, painters and colourers. The value of the fans made was 110,000 l. These masters employed 575 workpeople (262 men, 264 women, 29 youths, and 20 girls). The workmen on average earn 3 s, and the women 1s 8d per day. The men were for the most part copper-plate engravers and printers, lithographic draughtsmen and printers, painters, and colourers; the women were mounters, illuminators, painters, colourers, and overlookers. This in twenty years, it appears that the produce in fans had increased in value nearly threefold, whilst the number of workpeople had diminished to one half. This change is to be attributed to the employment of machinery...”
it looks like in 1828, Feuilly’s part of a pretty small group of workers?
