"Écrire l'histoire de la consommation en France, c'est raconter l'histoire de tous les Français : celle de nos grands ancêtres, de nos parents, de chacun d'entre nous. C'est aussi raconter l'histoire de la révolution matérielle qui s'est opérée sous l'influence des innovations techniques...

[eng] Abstract The management of family companies has for long been assimilated to inefficient and malthusian conservatism. The example of the Elbeuvian wool firm Blin et Blin, kept under the control of the same family since its foundation in 1827 until the suspension of its activity in 1975,...