Serdeau: A serdeau was formerly an officer of the king's household who received from the hands of gentlemen serving the dishes (leftovers) that were served from the royal table.
The term also designates the place where the serving gentlemen ate and where this serving was carried and sold; it was immediately put up for auction. This practice still existed at the end of the XNUMXth century, under Louis XVI, and a number of penniless courtiers and bourgeois thus made up the ...
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