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Updated: May 26, 2025
Their great patrons have disappeared, and, in lieu of a constant succession of customers, the few decrotteurs who remain at their old-established station, are idle half the day for want of employment. These Savoyards generally practise more than one trade, as is indicated by the enseigne which is affixed, on a short pole, above their tool-box.
At the present day, the decrotteurs or shoe-blacks still exercise their profession on the Pont Neuf and in other quarters; but, as a refinement of the art, there is also opened, at each of the principal entrances of the Palais du Tribunat, a cabinet de decrotteur, or small apartment, where you are invited to take a chair, and presented with the daily papers.
But the most sensible diminution is among the shoe-blacks, who stand in the carriage-way, and, with all their implements before them, range themselves along the edge of the very elevated trottoir or foot-pavement. The decrotteurs of the Pont Neuf were once reputed masters of the art: their foresight was equal to their dexterity and expedition.
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