1. Let us take note, however, of the biography of a Lorraine worker, Georges Steines. Born in 1912, he became an engineer, and then general director of the Sacilor mills. A former member of the Croix de Feu, marked by the spirit of the House of Wendel, he waxes indignant over the “misreading of the most elementary data concerning the general organization of the mills, such as the psychology of the masses,” which has characterized the directors of recent years and their Parisian masters. Steines, Georges, Le fer dans la peau (Metz: Ed. Serpenoise, 1957).Google Scholar

2. In the preface to volume one, Serge Bonnet recalls some of his predecessors: the sociologists of the group connected to La Réforme sociale, descendants of Le Play; the great recent theses in geography and learned monographs; and finally, for the entire period, the essays, novels and brochures, among which “freedom of selection is often more congenial than the claim to define exclusively an olympian impartiality.” In this category let us cite a recent example: Jeaudin, Jacques, Trieux, soixante-dix neuf jours au fond pour la Lorraine (Editions sociales, 1977).Google Scholar