Le Crédit mobilier avant la suprématie des Pereire
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 140006751
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3917/hes.202.0046
- Title of journal
- Histoire, Économie et Société
- Article number
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- First page
- 46
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0752-5702
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Historians have often emphasised the importance of the Pereire brothers in the banking revolution in France, and especially in the foundation of the Crédit mobilier. An innovation of scale, the latter was largely a creation of established bankers, particularly of Benoît Fould. Using new archival material, this article reconstructs Fould’s role in founding the Crédit mobilier, while also situating this institution in the context of other financial experiments being undertaken in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. In doing so, it shows some of the continuities that existed in political economy and finance between the July Monarchy and the Second Empire.