Barrio Yungay

This guide to Barrio Yungay in Santiago follows a barbershop that French immigrant Victorino Tauzan opened on Plaza Yungay in 1868, serving clerks from the nearby French consulate in a neighborhood laid out just decades earlier. You'll hear how the shop passed through Emilio Lavaud, Manuel Cerda, and four generations of the Lavaud family, and how the waves of intellectuals, exiles and dockworkers who moved through the barrio in the 1840s shaped the character it still carries. Listen for what the shop eventually added behind its vintage mirrors, and ask about the once when you get there.