Beaud, Claude - In: Histoire, économie & société 14 (1995) 1, pp. 107-131
[eng] Abstract The French defeat in 1870-71 directed Eugène Schneider, on President Thiers' s request, towards arms production. The originality of this study consists in showing how, in less than twenty years, Le Creusot succeeded in competing with Krupp : by perfecting excellent steels for...