[eng] Abstract Only continuous innovation enabled the Schneider factories to go through more than a century, by attaining and keeping up the highest level in the world. Three particularly innovating periods can be discerned : 1 - The first period when Le Creusot was retaken by the Schneider...

[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...