Material concerning France's extreme protection measures to protect French agriculture, with regard to the four phases of French tariff policy, post revolution when restrictions were removed, 1793-1814 when tariff policy was dictated by hostility to England this was overturned in 1860 with the Anglo- French trade treaty and the Jules Méline, former Minister of Agriculture, 1892 Tariff Treaty, includes
notes on 1892 Méline tariff and the French Government's nationalist economic policy, anti-free trade and pro-agricultural priorities
notes from J.H. Clapham's book, "The Economic Development of France and Germany 1815-1914"
Material on French agricultural crisis, 1862-1892
Material on the modernisation of rural France, 1870-1914
Extracts from Denis Brunn's essay on protectionism in France from the 1880's

English, French

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