jobman

The Rohmeresque English title seems to be offering a cross between Love in the Afternoon and My Night With Maud, but the French title, La tête en friche, means something like "the fallow mind", and refers to the middle-aged odd-jobman Germain (Gérard Depardieu), who strikes up an acquaintance in the square of a small French town with the 95-year-old Marguerite (the nonogenarian Gisèle Casadesus), a former international civil servant.

My Afternoons With Marguerite – review Philip French 2010

This fellow proved to be an odd-jobman who had been discharged from the Duke of

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

The owner, Norris Carthew, was on board in the somewhat unusual position of mate; the master's name purported to be William Kirkup; the cook was a Hawaiian boy, Joseph Amalu; and there were two hands before the mast, Thomas Hadden and Richard Hemstead, the latter chosen partly because of his humble character, partly because he had an odd-jobman's handiness with tools.

The Wrecker 1898

First the oil stove, with the help of a jobman, was removed to the unfinished room over the kitchen, for the chief charm of the dinner was to be its secret preparation.

Across the Years 1894

It is usual for them to lay under contribution all the tradesmen you employ; and thus the traiteur, the jobman, &c.

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

(including the coachman, who is always paid by the jobman) varies from 22 to 24 louis a month, according to the price of forage.

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798