The transition to capitalism in modern France : primitive accumulation and markets from the old regime to the post-WWII era

French agriculture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: growth without development -- Industrialization from the old regime to the post-revolutionary era: non capitalist opportunity-driven growth -- The first transition to industrial capitalism from the 1850 to the 1920s: imposing competitive imperatives -- The agricultural revolution of the fifth republic after the end of the 1950s -- Slow growth, relapse, and flourishing capitalist industrialization from the interwar period to the 1970s.