François Caron (historian)
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François Caron (24 March 1931 - 14 December 2014[1][2]) was a French economic historian, specialising in the economic history of France from the 19th century onwards.
Life
Born in
Compagnie du chemin de fer du Nord between 1846 and 1937.[3]
Works
Economic history
Railway history
Apart from his thesis, in 1973 he published via éditions Mouton a three-volume histoire des chemins de fer en France.
- Histoire des chemins de fer en France, Tome 1, 1740-1883, Fayard, 1997 - (Prix Guizot 1998)
- Histoire des chemins de fer en France, Tome 2, 1883-1937, Fayard, 2005
- Histoire des chemins de fer en France, Tome 3, 1937–1997, Fayard, 2017
General history
- La France des patriotes (1852-1918), volume 5 of the Histoire de France edited by Jean Favier, Fayard, 1985
References
- ^ (in French) Michèle Merger, « François Caron, 1931-2014 », ahicf.com, 14 December 2014.
- ^ (in French) Michèle Merger, « François Caron, 1931-2014 », Rails & Histoire, Paris, 2014
- ^ See the defence of his thesis in Revue historique, n° 494 (avril-juin 1970), pp. 522-529.