International audienceFrench big textile firms were traditionally under exclusive family control, run as private enterprises, outside the stock markets. In the 1960s, they tended to build industrial groups, which, even still under dominant family control, gave more autonomy to salaried managers. Some of those managers took advantage of the economic crisis in the following decade to gain their autonomy. But they didn’t not succeed in building sustainable economic structures and the groups were dismantled in the 1980-1990s.Les grandes entreprises textiles françaises ont longtemps été sous contrôle familial exclusif, avec un capital fermé, à l’écart des marchés financiers. Dans les années 1960, elles tendent à se regrouper au sein de groupes q...