Abstract «- We must strenghten our highways first, and we must link up our countless villages lost in the country to those important thoroughfares», after which only we'll test the railway system. According to the Journal of economists of 1842, such is the argument responsible for France belated railway system. As a matter of fact, since the creation of the «Ponts-et-Chaussées», french transportation has had to put up with two constraints : first the prevalence of the highway system due to the failure of connections between roads and water-ways, and secondly the conception of such a system as a mere extension of town planning. The Providence of trade, and the vehicle of urban radiance : the opinion of the Second Empire still finds it diffic...
The birth of a large scale technological system, le chemin de fer en France from the 1830s to 1870s....
In this paper, I study the impact of the Freycinet plan (1879-1914) on the French population and eco...
The railway triomphed at the beginning of the 2Oth century as it had become a means of transport no ...
Abstract : In 1812, the highways of the «Aisne» and «Sarthe» departments are made up of different se...
Abstract : In 1789, revolutionary France inherited a system of metalled roads, recently built but fr...
Roads in South Western France, 1780-1815 : attempts to create a structured network and later DISILLU...
The aim of this paper is to test the common idea that the railway network deeply modified the french...
Revue des deux mondes, April, 1838, Series 17 March 4, vol. 14 — 1838/06, pp. 163-200, from an addre...
Abstract The pleasure trip on railway began in France on 26 August 1837 when the first line which jo...
Repris in extenso dans Problèmes économiques, 19 juillet 1989.International audience[The French moto...
Social demand impelled, more than other, by automobile associations, pushed authorities to adapt for...
Abstract : Railway companies correspond to a particular kind of enterprise because from their beginn...
Abstract : At the beginning of the 1850s, railways had to attract a portion of the inland traffic Th...
In the 19th C, the towns in Alsace and Lorraine grew rapidly, as elsewhere in Europe, vwith the exce...
The french littoral has known several periods of traffic's development across the Channel. The Railw...
The birth of a large scale technological system, le chemin de fer en France from the 1830s to 1870s....
In this paper, I study the impact of the Freycinet plan (1879-1914) on the French population and eco...
The railway triomphed at the beginning of the 2Oth century as it had become a means of transport no ...
Abstract : In 1812, the highways of the «Aisne» and «Sarthe» departments are made up of different se...
Abstract : In 1789, revolutionary France inherited a system of metalled roads, recently built but fr...
Roads in South Western France, 1780-1815 : attempts to create a structured network and later DISILLU...
The aim of this paper is to test the common idea that the railway network deeply modified the french...
Revue des deux mondes, April, 1838, Series 17 March 4, vol. 14 — 1838/06, pp. 163-200, from an addre...
Abstract The pleasure trip on railway began in France on 26 August 1837 when the first line which jo...
Repris in extenso dans Problèmes économiques, 19 juillet 1989.International audience[The French moto...
Social demand impelled, more than other, by automobile associations, pushed authorities to adapt for...
Abstract : Railway companies correspond to a particular kind of enterprise because from their beginn...
Abstract : At the beginning of the 1850s, railways had to attract a portion of the inland traffic Th...
In the 19th C, the towns in Alsace and Lorraine grew rapidly, as elsewhere in Europe, vwith the exce...
The french littoral has known several periods of traffic's development across the Channel. The Railw...
The birth of a large scale technological system, le chemin de fer en France from the 1830s to 1870s....
In this paper, I study the impact of the Freycinet plan (1879-1914) on the French population and eco...
The railway triomphed at the beginning of the 2Oth century as it had become a means of transport no ...