Help Wanted: Feathermaster at the Lido in Paris
The Lido feathers wait for a Feathermaster.
© Meredith Mullins
Live Life to the Fullest with the Right Job
Paris seems to have more uniquely specialized jobs than most cities—from the Versailles Royal Molecatcher to the auctioneer who lights a candle every time someone offers a last bid at the Chambre des Notaires.
The French have a penchant for flair and living life to the fullest, even in the most functional of jobs.
There are also the jobs of utmost rarity. Consider the urban beekeeper who tends the hives on the roof of the Paris Opera House or the 40 “immortals” of the Académie Française, whose job it is to protect the usage, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language (who wouldn’t want to be an immortal?).
In that vein of rare professions comes the job position of Feathermaster at the Lido—the celebrated cabaret on the Champs Élysées in...
