The butchers organization was suppressed and all hope of reform lost.
In Paris the Burgundians were hand in hand with the corporation of the butchers, who were the leaders of the Parisian populace.
Merino cross with early-maturity longwool, Down, or other close-wooled rams, are good butchers' sheep, and most of the frozen mutton imported into the United Kingdom has had more or less of a merino origin.
Paris, with her tradesmenthe butchers in particularand her university, played an important part in this quarrel; for to be master of Paris was to be master of the king.
Many of its members were sons of the bourgeoisie, men who having been educated at college, thanks to some charitablt, agency, in the pride of learning, and raised above their original station, were ready for anything but had achieved nothing They bad plenty of talent at c0mmand, were full of classical tirades against tyranny, and, though sensitive enough in their private life, were bloodthirsty butchers in their public relations.
