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Abstract This article aims at introducing some of the methods used in a thesis on the merchants and tradesmen of Bordeaux between 1780 and 1830. As we wish to paint a living picture of these people, from the big shipowners to the small shopkeepers, we want to go beyond the quite dry statistical approach. That is why we will not limit ourselves to the global treatment of notarized contracts, fiscal lists and other almanacs but analyse many individual cases. Thanks to data processing we can now do both. To illustrate our point we have chosen he completely unknown person, Guillaume Nonlabade, whose career is going to come up as if by miracle from the computerized criss-crossing of quantitative sources.