The research program about the history of investment banking gauged in this text the legacy of Jacques Laffitte, one of the initiators of modern investment banking in the years 1800-1840. It assesses the reality of his contributions and argues about their role within the process of modernisation...

The research program about the history of investment banking assesses through this text the legacy transmitted by the merchant banks (Haute Banque) to the Paris banking market. It first delimited the foibles which hindered them in the last quarter of the 19th century, but précised how they...

The place of Lyon inherited from the first banking revolution of the 1750s-1850s years a solid structure of local banking houses, which were able to accompany the growth of the productive system of silk and the diversification of the emerging heavy industries. But the international deployment of...

"Afin de répondre aux demandes de plus en plus importantes et répétées des armées, l’industrie s’érige en vaste front de l’arrière. Des usines se reconvertissent ou sont créées ; les grandes entreprises deviennent des « firmes-pivots » structurant, au sein de chaque branche...