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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 8, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(3):608-610; doi:10.1093/es/khl035
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.

François Caron, ed. Les grandes Compagnies de chemin de fer en France, 1823–1937. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 2005. 411 pp. ISBN 2-600-00942-6, {euro}41.61 (paper).

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This is a book that is hard to describe and hard to review. It is certainly not an ordinary study of railway history but a kind of broad survey, based on a series of financial reports concerning the great French private railway companies, as drawn up between 1882 and 1936 by financial analysts of the Credit Lyonnais Bank and preserved in the "Archives Historiques du Crédit Lyonnais." François Caron, dean of French economic and railway historians, has selected large parts of the original reports and has added his own comments and explanations. It . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr

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