Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2015
This book draws on archival research for this and previous projects stretching back to 1990. In addition to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Archives Nationales located in Paris, I consulted departmental archives in the Aube, Bouches-du-Rhône (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille), Gironde, Loire, Seine-Maritime, and Somme. I also made use of the municipal archives and libraries of Amiens, Bordeaux, Paris, Rouen, Saint-Étienne, and Troyes, as well as specialized collections like the Archives de la Chambre de Commerce et industrie de Marseille-Provence and the archives of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. I was surprised and pleased to see how many pieces of information and primary sources, especially legal documents, could be found on Gallica (gallica.bnf.fr) or through Googlebooks (books.google.com). As a complement (never a replacement!) to archival research, these electronic repositories are enormously valuable. I could not have written this book in a reasonable amount of time without them. However, without deep familiarity with archival sources, I would neither have known what to look for nor understood what I had found.
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