Richez, Sébastien - In: Histoire, économie & société 21 (2002) 4, pp. 555-570
[eng] Abstract Postal activity is a priviledged mirror of the XIXth century French society. Formely, the low traffic proved a postal use reserved first to the elites of politics, then of culture, and then expanded to economics: the rest of the population didn't use to mail. From the 1860s,...