"Place where we stock up on goods, food, ammunition."
Would Furetière have borrowed this definition from a war story?
Not.
Until the 19th century, the time was, in fact, neither for Printemps nor for the Bazar de l'Hotel-de-Ville.
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What is the origin of the word store?
Originally the maguesin - spelled store in the 15th century - is borrowed from
Mahazin
Arabic
, plural of
Mahzan
.
He qualifies the “
warehouse
”.
As such, it is used to store a lot of goods.
What Montaigne nicely portrayed to describe "
the store of memory
".
In the 16th century, when
we
“go
shopping
”, in reality “
we put in reserve
”.
Books, canvas, wheat, salt… Everything lends itself to it.
As Richelet wrote in his
Dictionnaire françois
in 1680: “
It is a place where we keep a large number of things of the same, or of different kinds.
"
From the 17th century, there is what is known as an “
in-store merchant
”.
If he doesn't run a store yet, he is at least responsible for wholesaling products.
So we go
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